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In the video, two on Sunday, said the Union ' women can be seen walking Health Ministry, hoping that $ when a man chases them and the accelerated vaccination tries to snatch the victim’s drive will help make people safe 9>%@ chain from behind. The from the infection. & woman — identified as Simran The Covid-19 vaccine will " Kaur — chases him, following be given free of cost at < #$ which he falls on the road. Government hospitals, while ! Thereafter, he stands up and ! "#$ $ & people will need to pay for it at $ B stabs the woman. private facilities. The private $ The accused stabbed the & hospitals can charge up to ( victim and fled the spot, police ( ) 250 per dose for the jab. ; said, adding that she was taken * + , Citizens will be able to & ( to a hospital where she was register and book an appoint- $>@ declared brought dead. ment for vaccination, anytime Anil Jindal, Simran’s The weapon of offence and and anywhere, using the ?) ), neighbour, said three years scooty used in crime were recov- COWIN 2.0 portal or through opened. For example, for March istered decided by respective (NHA). hypertension, end-stage kidney ago, an incident of snatching ered. Simran’s aunt said she had other IT applications such as 1 the slots will be open from 9 State/UT Government for a The Ministry has also spec- disease on haemodialysis, diag- took place at the same spot gone to the market to buy med- Aarogya Setu etc, said a state- am till 3 pm on the same day, Vaccination Cycle. Total vac- ified 20 comorbidities among nosis of any solid cancer on or where Simran was stabbed. icines for her daughter. ment from the Ministry. and the appointments can be cination slots for a vaccination people aged between 45 and 59 after 2000 or currently on any of the new cases. The locals are in shock. “She was wearing a chain It further said there will be booked any time before that, cycle should not exceed the tar- years who will get the vaccine cancer therapy. Maharashtra continues to The incident took place and holding her daughter. The only one live appointment for subject to availability. However, get number of doses.” — heart failure with hospital About the surge in cases, report the highest daily new hardly 20 metres from the vic- accused was chasing them a beneficiary at any point of on March 1 an appointment can A User Guide for the admission in past year, mod- the Ministry said six States — cases at 8,623, followed by tim’s house and there is a police and tried to snatch the chain time for each dose. also be booked for any future Citizen Registration and erate or severe valvular heart Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Kerala with 3,792 while Punjab post around 100 metres from the but Simran caught hold of it Appointments for any date for date for which vaccination slots Appointment for Vaccination disease, coronary artery dis- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and with 593 new cases. Madhya spot. Police teams have arrested and did not lose her grip. a Covid Vaccination Center are available. has also been uploaded on the ease, CT/ MRI-documented Gujarat — are behind the cur- Pradesh and Haryana too have two accused persons identified When she resisted, the accused will be closed at 3 pm on that It also stated, “The number websites of the Ministry and stroke, diabetes of over 10 rent Covid uptick in India and joined the list in exhibiting a as Fardeen (19) and Aqibul (22), fell on the road. day for which the slots were of doses planned to be admin- National Health Authority years or with complications, account for almost 86 per cent spike in daily new cases. both residents of Jahangir Puri. Continued on Page 2 * - !"#! " $ &, ! "# $$ $ $ am Aadmi Party (AAP) $%& & Anational convener and ' $% Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the ! 6((< BJP-ruled Centre accusing it of “indifference” towards the enior Congress leader & " farmers who have been SGhulam Nabi Azad on ( ) protesting for the last three Sunday showered praises on months at Delhi’s borders — Prime Minister Narendra Modi. $ +,,-& Singhu, Tikri and Ghaziabad Speaking at an event organised ., / — against the three farm laws. by the Gurjar Desh Charitable " Addressing a “Kisan Trust, former Leader of "& Mahapanchayat” in Meerut, Opposition in the Rajya Sabha ' he alleged that the January 26 said he has serious political dif- # 0 violence at Red Fort was ferences with Modi but he "% orchestrated by the BJP itself. “appreciates that the Prime The Chief Minister also Minister does not try to hide his compared the BJP to Britishers, background from the world”. saying not even the colonisers “I like a lot of things about !"#$"%&' O used water canons and lathis on many leaders. 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7$ the Government has done “But the scent of the peo- Sonia Gandhi, 11 years ago on $ $ nothing about it. ple who belong to my village is May 29, 2010. % Detailed report on P3 unmatched,” the Congress Continued on Page 2 % & ' (( (! 8938:; Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Puducherry, Tamil (<( ith farmers’ agitation Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka,” Wholding centre stage, the EC said. It maintains a fter the ruling Shiv Sena unrecognised political parties pool of hundreds of symbols Atook the wind out of its are clamouring for farm-relat- which represent aspects of sails by seeking the resigna- ed symbols to contest the everyday life in India. tion of its TikTok star Pooja upcoming Assembly polls. The Bharatiya Janaseve Chavan’s alleged suicide- Sugarcane farmers (ganna Congress has been given ganna linked Minister Sanjay kisan), farmers driving tractors kisan symbol for Kerala, Assam Rathod, the Opposition BJP (tractor chalata kisan) and and Puducherry. The poll body on Sunday re-calibrated its jackfruit and coconut farms are has allotted tractor chalata strategy to target the rape- among the symbols issued by kisan to the All India Kisan accused NCP Minister the poll body to registered Janatha Party which is gearing Dhananjay Munde, ahead of unrecognised political parties up to contest from West the 10-day Budget session ahead of the Assembly polls in farm laws. Apple, capsicum, Bengal. The Makkal Neethi beginning here from Monday. five States. According to the cauliflower, ginger, grapes, Katchi-India has been allotted Maharashtra Chief Election Commission (EC), green chilli, lady finger, the symbol of “man blowing Minister Uddhav Thackeray 60-70 political parties have peanuts, pears, peas, pineapple, turha” for Tamil Nadu, Kerala, said, “Rathod has resigned approached the poll body seek- water melon, tiller and walnut Puducherry and West Bengal. from the State Cabinet of his ing registration in the past are also available for symbols. The Anna Puratchi own free will. I have ordered an two three months. “Apple as a symbol is avail- Thalaivar Amma Dravida impartial probe into the cir- These symbols assume sig- able for all States and union Munnetra Kazhagam has been cumstances leading to the nificance in the current sce- territories except in the States allotted Jackfruit to contest in alleged suicide by Pooja nario amid farmers protests in of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tamil Nadu. Chavan.” several States over the new Manipur, Meghalaya, Continued on Page 2 Detailed report on P5 !"!

* $ " ! % . *&+* /( & # '(' / New Delhi: Delhi has recorded The maximum and mini- # mean maximum temperature of mum temperatures are expect- 27.9 degrees Celsius in February, ed to be around 31 and 13 , , the second highest recorded for degrees Celsius respectively. <8 the month in the last 120 years, Delhi’s air quality was in the (<( Raut, who is the Executive the Indian Meteorological poor category throughout the Editor of Saamana, said that hree people were arrested Department said on Sunday. day with the air quality index aving made it clear that his Delkar must have thought that Tfor alleged involvement in The highest mean maxi- (AQI) recorded at 211, the real- HGovernment would inves- the Mumbai Police would act leaking an army recruitment mum temperature recorded for time data of the Central tigate the circumstances lead- on his suicide note and arrest exam paper that had to be can- February in Delhi was 29.7 Pollution Control Board ing to the alleged suicide by those who abetted him to com- celed moments before it was degrees Celsius in 2006, the showed. seven-time Dadra Nagar Haveli mit suicide. scheduled on Sunday, Pune IMD officials said. According to the Ministry of MP Mohan S Delkar, On his part, Maharashtra police said. said, adding that an insider On Sunday, a minimum Earth Sciences’ System of Air Maharashtra Chief Minister Home Minister Anil Police commissioner role, if any, in the leak was also temperature of 15.6 degrees Quality and Weather Forecasting Uddhav Thackeray said here on Deshmukh had said last that Amitabh Gupta said the exam being probed. Celsius, three notches above the and Research (SAFAR), high- Sunday that he would request the Mumbai police would was about to begin at 11am but An offence has been regis- season’s average, was recorded, surface wind speed, higher tem- Prime Minister Narendra Modi investigate the circumstances investigators found out an hour tered at Vishrantwadi police while the maximum tempera- perature and higher boundary and Union Home Minister leading to Delkar’s suicide. earlier that the paper details station, another official said, ture was 32.3 degrees Celsius, layer heights were influencing Amit Shah to direct the author- It may be recalled that 58- found in the phones of those but refused to give more details the Met Department said. AQI positively. ities in the Union Territory to year-old Delkar was found apprehended matched the one claiming it would hamper the The weather department “Hence, AQI is forecasted cooperate with the Mumbai hanging in a hotel in the that was set for aspirants. probe that is underway in two has predicted clear sky for to be in moderate to poor cat- Police in the investigations. Marine Drive in south Mumbai Following the police action, to three districts to catch the Monday with mist in the egory in the next two days,” it Hours after Sena on February 22. Fifty-eight- the exam was canceled, Gupta mastermind. morning. said. PTI spokesperson Sanjay Raut indi- year-old Delkar is suspected to rectly slammed the BJP and a have committed suicide by section of the media for their hanging himself. The police , P “silence” over Delkar’s alleged had recovered a 16-page sui- ))) * $ suicide – unlike in the case of cide note from the hotel room actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s where Delkar’s body was found. From Page 1 1( ,, death last year, the chief min- It may be recalled that on “When she turned towards Q R -. ister said: “The probe hasn’t February 24, the ruling him, the accused stabbed her Nalbari (Assam): The convoy A video clip of the incident, begun yet. But I will request the Congress – which is one of the twice and left the spot. of Lurinjyoti Gogoi, the presi- which has gone viral on social Prime Minister and Home three constituents in the MVA We got to know that the #<9;& “We will fight the polls Dal formed by jailed anti- dent of the newly floated media, showed a group of peo- Minister to instruct the author- government in Maharashtra accused was with his accomplice with the symbol of a ship. Ship CAA leader Akhil Gogoi’s Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), ple holding BJP flags and try- ities in the Union Territory to had turned the needle of sus- who took him on a scooter and he symbol of a “ship” has signifies our economy, culture, Krishak Mukti Sangram was on Sunday came under ing to block the convoy of cooperate with the Mumbai picion towards Administrator fled from the spot,” her aunt said. Tbeen allotted to the newly civilisation and trade along the Samiti (KMSS) and 70 organ- attack allegedly by supporters Gogoi, who was going to attend police when they reach there of the Union Territory (UT) of Amit Mehra, Simran’s formed Assam Jatiya Parishad Brahmaputra. The ship will isations. of the BJP in Nalbari district a meeting at Bahjani under for investigation”. Dadra, Nagar Haveli and neighbour, said he took her to (AJP) for the three-phase allow us to proceed unitedly in Of the total 126 seats in ahead of the assembly election. Barkhetri constituency in Talking to media persons Daman & Diu and former BJP hospital in his car. “When the assembly elections in Assam. Assam,” he said. Assam Assembly, elections to The police said that inves- Nalbari district. on the eve of the 10-day bud- MLA Praful Patel who, it incident occurred, the guard fol- Addressing a press con- The AJP was formed by 47, mostly in upper Assam, tigation into the matter has Gogoi said, “This planned get session of the State alleged, was among the UT lowed the accused, but he ference here, AJP president the All Assam Students’ Union will be held on March 27, started. Though no one was attack shows how much BJP is Legislature beginning here on officials that harassed Delkar escaped along with his accom- Lurinjyoti Gogoi said the (AASU) and Asom while 39 in Barak Valley and injured in the incident which rattled with the rise of the AJP. Monday, Uddhav said: “An leading the latter ending his life. plice who was waiting for him Election Commission of India Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chhatra central Assam will go to polls took place in Kalag area, one The administration should take independent MP+ ends his life In a video-conference held on a scooter. I took her to MD (ECI) allotted the party sym- Parishad (AJYCP) last year. on April 1 and voting in the car of the convoy was damaged, strict action and I request the by suicide...he writes 14 to 16 with Maharashtra Home City hospital at Model Town in bol to the regional party on The AJP has formed a remaining 40 seats in lower AJP spokesperson Ziaur Election Commission to hold pages... He commits because of Minister Anil Deshmukh, State my car. They referred her to Saturday. regional alliance with Raijor Assam will be held on April 6. Rahman claimed. free and fair polls.” PTI harassment. This is serious”. Congress general secretary Fortis hospital where she was In an indirect dig at the Sachin Sawant and party’s declared brought dead,” Mehra BJP, Uddhav said: “The suicide spokesperson Dr Raju said. note mentions names of some Wagmare alluded to a video Gurvinder Singh, a local res- ! P, * people. Why is nobody speak- clip released by late Delkar in ident, said crime in the area is ing about it?” mid-2020 and the suicide note increasing day by day. (

From Page 1 high command in Jammu. contribution” and display their to fill the shoes of Azad as he Modi had said. party, met here. After retiring from the Former Ministers Anand “loyalty” to the party by cam- cared not only about his polit- Meanwhile, National Abdullah said that he Rajya Sabha, Azad is seen Sharma and Kapil Sibal stood paigning to strengthen it in ical affiliation but also about Conference president and sit- wants the Congress party to be attending events in the close behind Azad and targeted the the States that are going to the country and the House. ting parliamentarian Farooq strong, adding that people company of Union Ministers. party high command for not polls. “I worry that after Azad Abdullah on Sunday said that look forward to it to sort His relations with the utilising his ‘experience’ and On the day of his retire- whosoever will take over from the Congress “must unite” to things out in the country. Congress high command too services when they needed ment from the Rajya Sabha, him will have to fill very big fight the divisive forces of the “I want the Congress to be are worsening with every him the most. Prime Minister Narendra boots because he cared not country. His remarks came a strong and it must unite to passing day. Hitting back, Congress Modi too had showered prais- only about his party but about day after “G-23” dissident fight the divisive forces of the On Saturday, a group of spokesperson Abhishek es on Azad. In his farewell the country as well as the leaders, who have been calling country. People look forward G-23 leaders led by Azad had Singhvi had advised the G-23 speech Modi had said, “It House. This is not a small for a leadership change and to the Congress to sort things openly targeted the Congress leaders to make their “best would be difficult for anyone thing, this a big thing,” PM organisational reforms in the out in the country,” he said.

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/Q 0 R 078 !"# " $/& (88!<& ment of each and every patri- ot of this nation,”he said. 1/ 0 he Aam Aadmi Party AAP senior leader Sanjay T(AAP) national convener Singh said, “We are here today and Delhi Chief Minister to give a message to the coun- 8938:; 8938:; Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at try. We have to make the voice the BJP-ruled Centre over “apa- of these farmers reach the par- s the Switch Delhi cam- he national Capital record- thetic” attitude towards the liament. It is these farmers Apaign enters its fourth Ted 197 fresh Covid-19 cases farmers who have been protest- who will bring a change. Delhi week, Delhi Transport Minister and one death on Sunday, even ing for the last three months at CM is the one who did not bow Kailash Gahlot has appealed to as the positivity rate stood at Delhi’s borders — Singhu, Tikri down to the demands of the all “Residents Welfare 0.34 per cent. and Ghaziabad, against the centre for changing the stadi- Associations” (RWAs) to make These new cases came out three Farm Laws. ums into jails, he is the one to the campaign a mass move- of 57,772 tests for Covid-19 Addressing a ‘Kisan provide all services to the farm- ment. conducted the previous day, Mahapanchayat’ in Meerut, he The Kisan Mahapanchayat After they voted in power, the ers sitting on the borders of Gahlot said, “RWAs are according to the latest health alleged that the January 26 held in Western UP, Meerut, same BJP Government filed an Delhi,” he said.Another party’s instrumental in encouraging bulletin issued by the city violence at Red Fort was witnessed thousands of farm- affidavit in the Supreme Court senior leader Rajendra Pal citizen’s participation in ensur- Government. orchestrated by the BJP itself. ers and farm leaders, who sup- that they will not give MSP to Gautam said, “PM Modi had ing better living environments The total number of tests The Chief Minister also ported the AAP national con- the farmers. They deceived the always maintained that he will and have played an important conducted on Sunday consists compared the BJP to Britishers, venor when he voiced his con- same farmers who believed not let the nation be a sell-out role in the development of of 39,070 RT-PCR tests and saying that not even the cerns relating to the three black them and voted for them think- but he has himself sold the Delhi.” 18,702 rapid antigen tests, the colonisers used water canons laws brought by the Centre. ing they will bring change.” nation today. As the campaign enters the bulletin added. and lathis on farmers. There was a wave of anger Kejriwal said that the cen- “These farm laws have fourth week, our focus is to Delhi had recorded 96 Criticising the Centre, he against the three black laws of tral Government adopted all been made for the benefit of connect with each RWA in coronavirus cases on January said that the three agricultur- the Central Government, and tactics to convert the stadiums these capitalist friends of the Delhi and urge them to under- 27, the lowest in over nine al laws are death warrant for the roars of “Repeal the farm laws’’ into jails even threatened their PM and the BJP. Delhi CM has take the mass awareness activ- install charging points in at 7,500 and over 100 models for months. It was also the first farmers. were coming from all ends. Government but he did not let improved the education and ity in their area to make the least five per cent of parking two, three and four wheelers time the daily infection count The Chief Minister said Many prominent AAP that happen. “BJP leaders have health system of Delhi, pro- campaign a Jan Andolan. spots in your area. This will are covered under EV policy stood below the 100-mark in that it has been more than three leaders such as Rajya Sabha MP been saying that the MSP still vided free electricity, improved The MLAs, RWAs and cit- assure residents of proper making it easy for the citizens that month. months and 250 farmers have and Uttar Pradesh in-charge exists. Tell me one mandi in UP infrastructure. If Delhi could izens of adjoining neighbour- charging infrastructure on to making the switch. The infection tally in the lost their lives while protesting Sanjay Singh, Rajendra Pal where the farmers are getting do it, UP could do it too but the hoods need to work together to their premises and ensure an Switch Delhi is an eight- city now stands at 7,39,289, the against the three farm laws but Gautam, Lok Sabha MP and MSP for their crops. I want to government here lacked the plan and engage local author- effortless transition for week mass awareness cam- authorities said. The tally of the Government has done AAP Punjab leader Bhagwant ask Yogi Ji, tell me one location intent,” he added. ities to ensure a smooth tran- Delhiites.” paign by the Delhi active cases is 1,335. nothing about it. Mann, UP Chief Sabhajeet or mandi in UP where the The farmers have been sition to electric vehicles. The Delhi Government is Government to sensitize each Besides fall in active cases, He said that the central Singh, Dilip Pandey, Khap farmers are getting MSPs for protesting at the borders along “RWAs and MLAs can play taking all measures to help cit- Delhiite about the benefits of the count of home isolation Government is under a com- leader, and farmer leaders, and their crop produce,” he said. with Delhi against the three a major role in making the citizens overcome the apprehen- switching to EVs to the envi- cases have also registered a sus- pulsion to give the practice of several AAP MLAs were pre- “Lakhs of farmers are on newly enacted farm laws - izens aware of the environ- sions regarding the charging of ronment as well as to make tained fall, dropping to below farming to capitalists which will sent in the Mahapanchayat. the roads. If there is a huge Farmers’ Produce Trade and mental benefits of switching to EV vehicles and enable a them aware of the incentives 691-mark, indicating improve- make the farmers labourers on Kejriwal said, “This is a do- mass movement against the Commerce (Promotion and an EV and incentives that can smooth transition in the city. and infrastructure being devel- ment in the Covid-19 situation, their own farmlands. He also or-die situation for the farmers. three farm laws, why is the Facilitation) Act, 2020; the be availed under Delhi Over 70 public charging oped under Delhi’s EV policy. as per the bulletin. accused the central govern- Before the 2014 general elec- Government not repealing Farmers Empowerment and Government’s EV policy by stations are already opera- The campaign aims at It said that 46 beds in ment of planning the violence tions, the BJP put in their these laws? What is its com- Protection) Agreement on organizing a door-to-door sen- tional in Delhi. Additionally, informing, encouraging, and Covid care centres are occupied that broke out at Lal Quila on manifesto that they will imple- pulsion, why is it bowing down Price Assurance and farm sitization drive. 500 charging points are com- motivating every person in by persons under quarantine, Republic Day, saying it was the ment the Swaminathan report before the capitalists? This Services Act 2020 and the The minister further said, ing up on 100 locations soon. Delhi to switch from polluting including travellers who have BJP workers who planned and and give 50 per cent of the price movement not only of the Essential Commodities “We encourage RWAs to take Subsidies up to Rs. 1.5 lakhs, vehicles to zero-emission elec- returned by the Vande Bharat launched the attack on Delhi. of the crop produce as the MSP. farmers but this is also a move- (Amendment) Act, 2020. the Switch Delhi Pledge to scrapping benefits up to Rs. tric vehicles. Mission and bubble flights. &! 23 ## 212 3 4 # 8938:; (AAP), the BJP and the early 2022. Corporation of Delhi was tri- MLAs. In Shalimar Bagh North Congress. All of them have The results for the bypolls furcated into North, South and ward, which fell vacant after the turnout of about 42 per cent expressed confidence that they will be announced on March 3, East corporations. death of the BJP councillor, the Awas recorded in the first will emerge victorious in the officials said, adding that there The main candidates in the contest is between the saffron eight hours of voting for the bypolls, being held under strict are 327 polling stations and 26 Kalyanpuri ward bye-elections party’s Surbhi Jaju, AAP’s Sunita bypolls to five municipal wards COVID protocols. candidates in the fray. are Dhirendra from the AAP, Mishra and Congress’ Mamata. in Delhi on Sunday, the first elec- The municipal wards where The officials said COVID- Siyaram Kanojia from the BJP The BJP had retained all toral exercise being conducted in polling is underway are Rohini- 19 patients can vote during the and Dharampal Maurya from three corporations in the 2017 the national capital amid the C, Shalimar Bagh (North), last hour of polling as per the the Congress. civic polls with the AAP fin- coronavirus pandemic. Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and government guidelines. Vijay Kumar from the AAP, ishing a distant second. While The results of these bye- Chauhan Banger. Thermal guns are being Om Prakash Gugarwal from the the BJP had swept the polls by elections are likely to have an While Shalimar Bagh used to measure temperature of BJP and Bal Kishan from the winning 181 seats, AAP had impact on the big-ticket 2022 (North) is reserved for women, all voters, and masks and sani- Congress are contesting from won 48 and Congress was on 8938:; Delhi civic polls. 5 1, / Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri are tiser bottles are being provided Trilokpuri ward. third spot in the tally with 30 Polling began at 7:30 AM , * ( reserved for the Scheduled Caste at the polling stations, another In Chauhan Banger, former seats to its kitty. he North Delhi Municipal amid tight security arrange- ) (SC) category, according to the official said. AAP MLA Haji Ishraq Khan is In May 2016, bypolls were TCorporation (NMC) and ments, and it is scheduled to end poll body. Of Delhi’s 272 wards, North pitted against Congress’ held for 13 municipal wards, Bisleri have come together to at 5:30 PM. In Kalyanpui ward in east 2.42 lakh people are eligible to The turnout at other wards Delhi Municipal Corporation Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad and with the AAP picking up five educate citizens about the By 3:30 PM, the overall Delhi, two of the seven polling cast their votes in two wards are Trilokpuri (46.62 per cent); and South Delhi Municipal BJP’s Nazir Ansari. seats, follows by Congress with importance of plastic recycling turnout across the five wards was locations are in “critical” cate- under the North Delhi Rohini-C (38.42 per cent); Corporation have 104 each and These three wards are under four and the BJP with three seats, and segregation of plastic at 42.91 per cent, with Kalyanpuri gory. A total of 16 polling loca- Municipal Corporation Shalimar Bagh-North (35.67 East Delhi Municipal the East Delhi Municipal one ward picked up by an inde- source under ‘Swachha ward recording the maximum tions out of the total 44 have (NDMC) and three wards under per cent) and Chauhan Banger Corporation has 64. Corporation. The AAP held pendent candidate.The voters’ Sarvekshan Abhiyan’. 50.56 per cent, as per the data been kept in this category, as per the East Delhi Municipal (46.40 per cent), the official said. The Bharatiya Janata Party these wards. The bypolls were turnout in 2016 bypolls was North Delhi Mayor Jai shared by a senior official of the official data. Corporation (EDMC). The bypolls are being seen has been controlling all three necessitated after sitting coun- 45.90 per cent, as per data Prakash informed that the civic State Election Commission in According to the State The main contenders are as the semifinal before the elec- corporations since 2012, when cillors contested the assembly shared by the State Election body along with Bisleri will Delhi. Election Commission, around the ruling Aam Aadmi Party tions to all 272 MCD wards in the erstwhile Municipal polls last year and became Commission. implement “Bottles for Change’ program to create awareness among the resident. “Plastic is thought to be a & 4 *4 R ! , $1 threat to the environment but in reality it is not If recycled after its use,” he added. 43 Deputy Commissioner of 8938:; him to India with emerald,” that he has sold all Emerald for Karol Bagh Zone Himanshu said the Joint CP. 8,000 per caret and gave only 8938:; stituted for this purpose by the started in September last year Gupta handed over the permis- 62-year-old man has been “During his stay in Jama 10 lakh for emerald and minister which consist of on route 534 in Gazipur and sion letter to Santosh Darne, a Aarrested by the Economic Masjid area in Delhi, he came assured to give remaining he Transport Department expert members from the Hasanpur depots. It started in representative of Bisleri for Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi in contact with the accused amount in 15 days,” said the Tof the Delhi Government is transport department, Delhi a total of 35 buses from both implementing the program in Police for allegedly cheating an person. Gulam Hasan assured Joint CP. all set to conduct one-month Transport Corporation (DTC), depots. corporation’s geographical areas. Afghan national by inducing that he will sell the Emerald on “Gulam was contacted var- final phase of trial of the con- Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal After the success in these Anjana Ghosh, director him for selling his emerald a higher price. On believing ious times to return either tactless e-ticketing app ‘Chartr’ Transit System Ltd. (DIMTS), depots, e-ticketing was scaled (Marketing) of Bisleri stone on at higher price. the words of Gulam, he hand- Emerald or amount but he in all 2,990 buses of ‘Delhi Indraprastha Institute of in all depots of DTC in a International said, “People hate The accused has been iden- ed over 1940 caret small never did so. He came to know Integrated Multi-Modal Transit Information Technology (IIIT- phased manner. Currently, e- plastic because they are not tified as Gulam Hasan alias, a Emerald to Gulam for selling it that Gulam was telling a lie. System’ (DIMTS) Ltd from D) and World Resources ticketing is live on a trial basis aware about the feats of recy- resident of Mustafabad in at the price of 6,000-8,000 per During investigation, it was Monday. Institute (WRI). The mobile e- in all buses and routes of DTC. cling. It is a widespread under- Kashmir who was arrested by caret,” said the Joint CP. revealed that after selling the The service was launched ticketing App has been devel- The trials also included exhaus- standing that, plastic adds to the the EOW team on February 25. “After three days, Gulam emerald worth of 2.73 Crores, in August 2020 and scaled up oped with the technical support tive passenger surveys, to environmental pollution. But, According to Dr O P came back and told that he has accused gave only 21 lakh and in the wake of the Covid pan- of IIIT-Delhi, a senior Delhi ensure maximum commuter- every piece of plastic is recyclable Mishra, the Joint emerald stone in Afghanistan sold small Emerald for 5,000 remaining amount was not demic. The trial would cover all government official said. friendliness of the App. for several times. All we need to Commissioner of Police, EOW, and on July 26, he came to per caret and gave only 7 lakh paid till date. He knows that the the routes of DIMTS buses. In E-ticketing in DIMTS was The total daily ticket book- do is change our habits and stop a case was registered on a India for selling emerald on rupees to him and assured to complainant belongs to the last week of February, the started in August last year on ing through ‘Chartr’ app is treating plastic as a waste. complaint of Syed Shah Agha invitation of a person. Due to give remaining amount very Afghanistan and he will not trial of this app was extended route number 473. The total around 10,000 per day. In the This program is already who is a resident of some reason, he couldn’t sell soon. He again took 2,210 remain in India for a long time. to all 3,760 DTC buses till number of buses increased to last 10 days, the ticket count implemented in Mumbai, Afghanistan. the same to that person, who caret emerald for 15,000- Hence, he deliberately started March 31st. 550 thereafter in a phased through this app has witnessed Chennai, Bengaluru and now “In his complaint he stat- had given him advance amount 16,000 per caret. After 2-3 delaying the matter,” said the The trial is being conduct- manner. In DTC, the trial of a 10 per cent day on day Delhi will be its new destination. ed that he has a business of in Afghanistan and invited days, Gulam came and stated Joint CP. ed by a special task force con- this online ticketing app was increase. *3 & P , ,

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! !+!: 5 # # O , P !"##"$% 1/ 8938:; %!"&'# ormal bilateral ties 8938:; Nbetween India and China 8938:; location from where price data depends on lasting peace and sking the country to think are reported,” it said. The report- tranquility on the border, 4 Aahead, Prime Minister he Ministry of Consumer ing of static data from office Foreign Secretary Harsh Narendra Modi on Sunday TAffairs on Sunday said that desktop is ruled out through the Shringla said on Sunday. His highlighted the need for water data collection of wholesale and application of Mobile App. comments came days after !! 8938:; conservation saying the retail prices of 22 essential com- “Therefore, the condition to both the countries completed Government would “in a few modities on a daily basis has operationalise Mobile App is the first phase of disengage- t least three Central Police days” launch a campaign ‘Catch improved following the launch that each Price Reporting Centre ment of troops from the stand AOrganisations (CPOs), the Rain’ “where it falls when of a mobile app from January has to furnish market details off sites at the Pangong including CBI and NCB, it falls.” this year. The ministry monitors such as names and addresses of Tso(lake) in Eastern Ladakh. besides two Central Armed In his monthly radio-talk prices of rice, wheat, wheat the shops and markets from India has always stressed Police Force (CAPF) or para- ‘mann ki baat’, Modi called for flour, gram dal, tur/arhar Dal, where prices are being collect- in interactions with Chinese military, CRPF and NSG, are a 100-day campaign to clean up urad dal, moong Dal, masoor ed daily,” it said. As per the interlocutors that a normal headless in the face of absence water bodies and harvest rain- To motivate people cient efforts to learn world’s Dal, sugar, milk, groundnut oil, guidelines for retail price report- bilateral relationship is con- of appointments of regular cadre was moved to the Union water. towards nature conservation most ancient language Tamil. mustard oil, vanaspati, soya oil, ing, the prices of the same vari- tingent on peace and tran- chiefs. These agencies are Home Ministry has Special “This is the best time to Modi gave an example of Jadev I could not learn Tamil,” said sunflower oil, palm oil, gur, tea, ety of a commodity are to be col- quility in the border areas, the working with ad hoc chiefs. Secretary (Internal Security) think about water conservation Payeng of Assam. “He has Modi in his response. salt, potato, onion and tomato. lected from three markets — Foreign Secretary said. While the post of Director from August 19 last year for in the summer months ahead. actively contributed towards Extending greetings to The price data is being collect- high income market, middle Underlining that China is of Central Bureau of tenure till November 30, 2022. Water has been crucial for the 300 hectares plantations in the people on ‘National ed from 127 centres across the income market and low income the second-largest economy in Investigation (CBI) is vacant The elite counter-terror development of humankind Majuli island in Assam. He has Science Day’, Prime Minister country through food and civil market, and the average of the the world and India has a large since February 3 when the CAPF or paramilitary National for centuries,” he said. been working for forest con- noted the immense role that, supplies departments of state three prices is to be reported. trade profile with it, Shringla then incumbent RK Shukla Security Guard (NSG) is head- In his 74th edition, second servation and has been inspir- he said, played by Science in Governments. The ministry said that the said India has to continue to retired from service after com- less since October 1 last year as for 2021, radio address Prime ing people on plantation and making the country self- “To improve the quality of mobile App has inbuilt feature work on the economic rela- pletion of the fixed two-year the then Director General AK Minister touched on various conservation of biodiversity”, reliant. prices data for reporting daily to calculate and report the tionship with the neighbour- tenure, 1984-batch Gujarat Singh retired from service on issues concerning the nation, he said. “Today is National prices by the price reporting cen- average price. ing country, but it has to be cadre IPS officer Rakesh September 30 and ITBP Chief including water conservation, Wishing students ahead Science Day. It is dedicated to tres, the Department of This helps in avoiding calibrated based on the Asthana is holding additional SS Deswal is holding additional coronavirus and self-reliance. of their examinations, Modi the discovery of the ‘Raman Consumer Affairs launched a human errors in calculation. progress on important issues charge of the chief of the charge of the top post in the “Many people from across said, ‘Be a warrior, not wor- Effect’ by scientist Dr CV Mobile App on 1st January, Market information from that are critical to both coun- Narcotics Control Bureau Force. the country are contributing to rier.’ He also invited parents, Raman. Our youth should 2021,” the ministry said in a Agmarknet, Agriwatch, tries politically. (NCB) after his appointment as While the Centre on Friday Atmanirbhar Bharat… teachers for their suggestion read a lot about Indian sci- statement. NAFED and trade associations Talking about the “recent Director General of the Border appointed the outgoing CRPF Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not for “Pariksha pe Charcha.” entists and understand the The monitoring and pre- also constitute inputs for price disturbances” on the India- Security Force (BSF) on August DG AP Maheshwari as an merely a Government efforts.It In his address ,Modi history of Indian science,” dictive analysis of prices of analysis. China border areas in Eastern 17 last year. advisor to Puducherry’s is the national spirit of India,” urged sports ministry to pro- said Modi. essential commodities has taken The ministry is also utilis- Ladakh, Shringla, while speak- The CBI is currently head- Lieutenant Governor, two days said Modi. mote sports commentary in “In self-reliant India, a giant step forward, it said. ing the services of Agriwatch ing at a session of the Asia ed by 1988-batch Gujarat cadre before his superannuation from Modi stressed the impor- regional culture there is immense contribution The mobile app for price for providing market intelli- Economic Dialogue, said, “We IPS officer Praveen Sinha, the Indian Police Service (IPS) tance of water conservation “We need to think about of science. We will have to monitoring for 22 essential gence, predictive analysis of in our interactions with our presently additional director in on Sunday, the appointment of during his address and promoting commentary of take science forward with the commodities has started pro- prices and to develop price Chinese interlocutors have the investigating agency, as an the chief of the paramilitary is announced that the Jal Shakti Indian sports in regional lan- mantra of “lab to land,” he viding effective real time infor- forecasting model. always made the point that a interim chief till a regular yet to be made. The CPRF is Ministry would soon launch a guages,’ Prime Minister said. added. mation about retail and whole- The ministry said it had normal bilateral relationship is appointment. the world’s biggest paramilitary water conservation campaign “We must think about Modi began his address sale prices from 127 locations proposed to DEA (department contingent upon peace and The CBI chief is appoint- with a strength of over 3.25 called ‘Catch the Rain’ promoting it. I would urge the by invoking saint-poet Sant across the country, the statement of economic affairs) for tech- tranquility in the border areas.” ed by a high-level panel head- lakh personnel. “On March 22, World sports ministry and private Ravidas, a day after the nation said. nical assistance fund under This is a sine qua non ed by the Prime Minister that While the CBI comes Water Day will be celebrated. institutions to think about it,” remembered him on his The daily report of retail and CARES Progamme of Asian (absolutely necessary) and this also includes the Chief Justice under the administrative con- We must understand our he said. anniversary. wholesale prices are obtained Development Bank (ADB) for is something both sides have of India and the Leader of the trol of the Department of responsibility towards water Do you ever feel that “Sant Ravidas Ji taught us- from 127 centres located across improving price monitoring accepted as part of their treaty largest Opposition party in the Personnel and Training, the conservation. In a few days, the something is still missing? keep working, do not expect the country. The daily report of and analysis. obligations, he said at an Lok Sabha and a meeting of the Central Reserve Police Force Jal Shakti Ministry will launch asked a listener to which he anything…when this is done prices and indicative price trends The activity components online session of the Dialogue committee is yet to be called, (CRPF), National Security a campaign Catch the Rain. Its mentioned his “insufficient there will be satisfaction. He are analysed for taking appro- under the technical assistance organised by the Pune sources said. Guard (NSG), Narcotics slogan is Catch the Rain, where efforts” to pick-up Tamil taught people to go beyond priate decisions such as release are upgradation of price mon- International Centre. Likewise, the post of the Control Bureau (NCB), Bureau it falls when it falls. This is the language. conventional thinking. Sant of stocks from the buffer and itoring portal, capacity building “Now as we disengage and chief of Bureau of Police of Police Research and best time to think about water “You have been PM and Ravidas Ji spoke directly and export-import policy etc. for price reporting centres and as there is some forward Research and Development Development (BPR&D) report conservation in the summer CM for so many years. Do honestly about various issues. “Price reporting through price monitoring cell, identifi- movement in the resolution of (BPR&D), also a CPO, is vacant to the Union Home Ministry months ahead. Water has been you ever feel that something He was fearless. We bow to Mobile App ensures reporting cation of long-term improve- some of the recent border after the incumbent Director that is also the cadre control- crucial for the development of is still missing? asked a lis- Sant Ravidas Ji on his Jayanti. from the market ments for food commodity friction points...obviously we General and 1986-batch IPS ling authority for the IPS offi- humankind for centuries,” he tener,” the listener had asked. His thoughts inspire us,” said location as data are geo- supply chain & market effi- have to see what else is officer of Andhra Pradesh cers in the country. said. “I could not make suffi- the Prime Minister. tagged thereby displaying the ciency. required,” he said. “It is a very long border that we have with China and 8 / we are only talking about one O P $7( & small point on the border. “We are trying to now see 2 'I#& whether we can apply similar P & principles in sorting out some 7; of the other areas which are in the Ladakh sector, some other at least once, the Committee sectors that we are talking )< 8938:; will be free to conduct its pro- about, and to see how else we ceedings online. It will be can move forward on the issue he National Green Tribunal free to take the assistance of managing our long but "!;!2& A beaming Indian Space Thas formed a six-member from any other expert/orga- contentious border with China Research Organisation (ISRO) committee and directed it to nization. in a manner that allows both ndia’s Polar rocket on Sunday Chairman K Sivan announced submit a report in connection “The Committee may countries to sort of maintain Isuccessfully launched the mission was successful and with a gelatin explosion at a suitably interact with the a level of semblance of nor- Amazonia-1 of Brazil and 18 all 19 satellites were launched in quarry site in Chikkaballapur stakeholders and, apart from malcy,” the foreign secretary other satellites from the space- precise orbits. “Today is a very in Karnataka that left six peo- considering the present inci- said. port here, in the first mission great day for the entire ISRO ple dead. dent, also consider remedial Shringla said the resolu- of the year for space agency team and the PSLV-C51 is a spe- A bench headed by NGT measures for preventing such tion of the outstanding issues ISRO. cial mission for India. Let me Chairperson Justice A K Goel incidents in the area or by was a “work in progress” and The Polar Satellite Launch congratulate and compliment took note of other establishments even has had an impact on the Vehicle PSLV-C51 lifted off at the team ISRO for achieving the a media report and issued beyond the said area,” the economic ties, he said. On the around 10.24 am from the first precise injection of AMAZO- notices to the Central Pollution bench said. economic aspect of the ties, he launch pad of the Satish NIA-1 and 18 other satellites,” he Control Board, state pollution The tribunal took cogni- said the important point is that Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) said. control board, Director Mines sance of media report dated whatever one does, China is and first injected into orbit pri- PSLV-C51 is the first dedi- Karnataka and the District February 23, 2021 which the second-largest economy in New Delhi: In a boost for the and is capable of automatical- Seeking to keep a closer eye mary payload Amazonia-1 cated commercial mission of Magistrate Chikkaballapur. reported that six people were the world and India has a large country’s surveillance capabil- ly identifying the warships and on the activities of the Chinese about 17 minutes later. NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), “We constitute a six-mem- killed in quarry blast in trade profile with it. ities to monitor activities of merchant ships operating in the military both near the Indian After a gap of over one- ISRO’’s commercial arm, and the ber joint committee compris- Hirenagavalli, Chikkaballapur “Clearly, we have to con- both military warships and IOR. The satellite has also territory as well as in its depth and-half hours, the co-passen- launch was watched among oth- ing the CPCB, State PCB, on February 22. tinue to work on the eco- merchant shipping in the started communicating with areas all along the 4,000 kilo- ger satellites, including one ers by Brazilian Government District Magistrate, The blast occurred in a nomic relationship but it has Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the ground systems, govern- metre Line of Actual Control from Chennai- based Space officials at the mission control Chikkaballapur, nominee of stone quarry unit situated in to be calibrated based on the ‘Sindhu Netra’ satellite ment sources told ANI. (LAC), the Indian security Kidz India (SKI), which is centre here, over 100 kms from Director General, Mines, Chief Hirenagavalli village. peace and tranquillity and developed by a team of young The satellite, if required, agencies feel there is a require- engraved with a picture of Chennai. The 18 co-passenger Controller of Explosives, According to the prelim- progress on important issues scientists from Research and can also help in carrying out ment of four to six dedicated Prime Minister Narendra satellites placed in the orbit are Ministry of Commerce and inary information shared by that are critical to both coun- Development Organisation surveillance in specific areas satellites which can help them Modi, were launched subse- —four from ISRO’’s Indian Industry, Nagpur, and the the police, the quarrying work tries politically,” he said. (DRDO) was successfully such as the South China Sea or keep a check on the adversary’s quently one after another in the National Space Promotion and Director, Mines, Karnataka to was stopped at the site on Noting that China is deployed in space on Sunday. the pirate-infested areas near moves. space of ten minutes in a text- Authorisation Centre (three give a report to this tribunal,” February 7 after local resi- India’s largest trading partner The satellite was launched the Gulf of Aden and the Along with the setting up book launch. UNITY Sats from consortium of the bench said. dents complained of rampant in terms of goods, the foreign using the Indian Space African coast, the sources said. of the Defence Space Agency, SKI’s Satish Dhawan three Indian academic insti- The nodal agency for use of gelatin sticks. secretary said the balance of Research Organisation’s (ISRO) They added that the the Government also created a Satellite (SD-SAT) also car- tutes and the SD-SAT from coordination and compliance The work continued trade is very much skewed in PSLV-C51 which took off from Sindhu Netra is one of the first defence space research organ- ried Bhagavad Gita in a SKI) and 14 from NSIL. will be the CPCB and the State despite the ban, and another favour of China. the Satish Dhawan Space in the series of satellites that isation to look after the ability Secured Digital card format. The 637-kg Amazonia-1 PCB, the NGT said while raid was conducted by the “We have carried quite a Centre in Sriharikota in would help the nation in to protect space assets from According to SKI, the picture which became the first Brazilian adding that the committee police, during which the con- heavy trade imbalance for Andhra Pradesh at 10:30 am enhancing its surveillance being attacked by adversaries of Modi has been engraved on satellite to be launched from may visit the site preferably tractor was warned not to use over a number of years. Over today. capabilities on land in areas there. The space arm of the the top panel of the spacecraft India is an optical earth obser- within next one week and gelatin. The explosives went time this has increasingly The Sindhu Netra satellite such as the Ladakh region defence forces would also be to solidarity and gratitude for vation satellite of National give its report about the cause off when the men were trying seemed as being unsustain- has been developed by the with China and the border bolstered significantly in near his Atma Nirbhar initiative Institute for Space Research of the incident. to dispose them off, the NGT able,” he said. young scientists of the DRDO areas with Pakistan. future. ANI and space sector privatisation. (INPE). “Except for visit to the site noted. ( 78 :, & 8938:; diseases, the rest need to be “What the government understanding of the impact of managed. believes is utterly contradicto- !! " rare diseases on the patient’s n World Rare Disease Day, “We are literally sitting on ry. They ask why should they # quality of life. Oobserved on every last day a ticking time bomb,” Prasanna initiate anything massive for a “Early diagnosis can of February, experts on Sunday Shirol, co-founder of the group which does not have a $ improve avenues for life-saving stressed on mandatory new- Organisation of Rare Diseases massive patient burden unlike % ! & interventions and therapies in 8938:; born screening and adequate in India (ORDI) said, lament- non-communicable diseases patients with rare disease,” financial support for control ing that there is no official list like cancers, but what I say is ( added Oommen C Kurian, he CBI has identified 10 and management of the dis- of identified rare diseases that to know the real burden it head of Health Initiative at Tmore victims of alleged ease. issued by the Government. has to make newborn screen- ORF, a thinktank. Though the child sexual abuse by now-sus- There are more than 7,000 In fact, the national registry ing mandatory,” he slammed suggested. Union Ministry of Health has pended Uttar Pradesh Irrigation diagnosed rare diseases in the announced by Indian Council the Government. Unhappy at the delay in issued draft National Policy for department junior engineer world and over 350 million of Medical Research (ICMR) in Vikas Bhatia from Merd diagnosis, Vijay sappani, chair- Rare Diseases 2020 for stake- Ram Bhuwan, the alleged pae- individuals suffer from them, 2017, which aimed to cover a (Metabolic Errors and Rare man of Sappani Foundation for holder inputs, the activists are dophile also accused of selling with nearly one-fifth in India. set of rare and ultra-rare dis- Diseases) India Foundation Though, some States like “Otherwise also, even if it rare disease research and board not very enthusiastic about it. the illicit acts with kids on the “But, many patients go without orders that are prevalent in echoed similar views saying Kerala and Goa and hospitals is mandatory or not mandato- member of Canadian organi- They rued that the policy dark web, officials said. being diagnosed accurately or India has remained a non- that in India, the health care like such as SGPGI Lucknow, ry, the health of their baby is of zation of rare disorders In embraces a minimalist Further expanding its treated on time,” activists in the starter till date. priorities are still limited to JK Loan Hospital, Jaipur, have utmost important concern of India, Parvathy Krishnan from approach and maintains that exhaustive probe, the central sector said while calling for a Lack of awareness is the reducing the Infant Mortality made it mandatory screening the parents and they do not Foundation Alliance Manager healthcare is a State subject. probe agency recorded the state- comprehensive policy. biggest challenge in diagnosing Rate(IMR) and meeting basic for some disorders in the state want to go through any trau- for Global Genes felt that “this Early this year, the Delhi ment of these 10 male victims Around 50 percent of the rare diseases, said Shirol, infrastructure requirements. government health care facili- ma,” he said. “Lastly, screening journey is significantly more High Court had directed the to buttress its charges against rare diseases are by birth, and explaining that the average “The Government is yet to have ties, it should be uniformly should be simple, specific, sen- prolonged due to the unavail- Centre to finalise and opera- Bhuwan who was arrested along the rest are late onset. Only time to identify a rare disease a mandatory screening pro- adopted by all the States, said sitive, cost effective and easy for ability of testing, limited access tionalise the Policy by March with his wife and a suspected seven of the 450 are treatable in a patient is seven years. gram for newborn babies.” Bhatia. collection and transport,” he to specialists, and a lack of 31, 2021. accomplice, they said. !"! ) .4 % 4 4 4 414.

6 7$75& sponsored mammoth rally at percent — dominating the vot- of friendship will get a positive “we have a few days left before the historic Brigade Parade ing pattern of about 125 seats. reply otherwise not.” Siddiqui we will start campaigning. Now 8 Ground in Kolkata said. The role of Furfura Sharief has been unhappy with the it is their job to take a decision.” “Mamata Banerjee did clerics also becomes important Congress which is reluctant to When contacted 2:2& more harm to Muslims by cre- as they have an influence over part with 10 seats from its share Chowdhury said, “Congress is ating a Hindu-Muslim divide the majority of Bengali-speak- to the ISF. not dependant on any one. It n what could give a creased and allowing the BJP to enter ing Muslims of the State. After initial rounds of talks takes its own decision. Our Iforehead to Bengal Chief the State with its agenda … she Reacting to the “alleged the Marxists have left 92 seats talks with the Left are not over Minister Mamata Banerjee, is a bigger enemy of the grand success” of the rally, out of 294 for the Congress and yet. We do not know how Indian Secular Front (ISF) Muslims,” the Muslim cleric Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim 30 seats for the ISF. The ISF has much we are getting so how chief Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui of earlier said. said, “The people do not want been asking for additional 10 can we part with any seat for Furfura Sharief — the largest The mega rally was also know to know who supports seats from Congress’ share. the ISF. First let us be clear Muslim religious congregation attended by senior Congress whom … they want to know In the rally Siddiqui said, about our own seat share…” in Bengal — on Sunday open- leaders like party Lok Sabha who will stand by them … and “People must be thinking that Meanwhile the leaders ly asked the “people of Bengal” Leader Adhir Chowdhury, that is Mamata Banerjee … no why I asked you to vote for the lambasted Narendra Modi and to “vote for the Left Front as a Chhattisgarh Chief Minister amount of effort to divide anti- Left and why I did not mention Baghel attacked the Narendra mark of gratitude for their Rupesh Baghel and Jitendra BJP votes will work as the the Congress … I have come Modi Government for its “anti- humility to leave 30 seats for Prasad. Among other star minorities are an intelligent lot here to extract our genuine people approach” and selling us” in the coming Assembly speakers were CPI(M) gener- and they have seen the fate of rights and not to appease out the national assets to a few elections. al secretary Sitaram Yechury, Bihar elections a few months someone … those who will corporate houses. “The Left Front leaders his politburo colleagues, ago.” =*>1 , , ( ?! extend their hands of friend- “This Government has have showed humility to accept Suryakanto Mishra, Md Salim In an electoral atmos- @ ( &3 1 ship we will definitely back decided to squeeze the farmers most of our demands conced- and Biman Bose and JNU stu- phere almost vertically divid- them.” and common people dry as can ing 30 seats to us and so the ISF dents’ wing leader Aishi ed between the ruling Siddiqui’s support to the decades — a factor that can thousands of Hindu refugees In private he said, “I have be seen not only from the will support them to throw out Ghosh. Trinamool Congress and the Left promises to bring back eventually make the BJP’s job who were forced to leave heard that Sonia Gandhi and triple anti-farmer laws passed the communal politics of the Siddiqui’s support for the BJP, the waning Left had been the minority votes to its fold easier, a senior State BJP Bangladesh take a decision.” Rahul Gandhi want this by them but also the rising BJP and its agent Mamata Left beomces significant against trying to stitch together a but it also threatens Chief leader and a former MLA Siddiqui who supported alliance to be in place but petro-prices and cooking gas,” Banerjee … the ISF will sup- the backdrop of high percent- Third Front comprising non- Minister with a realistic loss of said adding “this rally was the the Left however issued a veiled some people (read Adhir Chowdhury said More than 8 port the Left Front,” Pirzada age of Muslim votes in Bengal BJP, non-TMC parties includ- Muslim votes — her electoral rally not of the Left but of the warning to the Congress saying Chowdhury) are acting as irri- lakh people attended the rally, who attended the Left Front- accounting for about 28-30 ing the Congress. mainstay for the past two Bhaijan Siddiqui) … let the “those who will extend a hand tants,” Siddiqui said adding Biman Bose later said. 0/4 )K + 6L2 3 P $ ! 6((< Aakash was not responding to the done recce of the fortified area 10 days treatment to their satisfaction they in advance on the instructions of their ! The Congress is hoping to Modi Government is unleash- akash Mehra, son of a famous should have referred him to New handler identified as 'Ghazi'. ;8 get at least 40 seats, the same ing central agencies like AKrishna dhaba owner, shot at by Delhi or any other place”, Lt-Gov Manoj Sinha in his con- number of assembly seats Enforcement Directorate, CBI the motorcycle borne terrorists on several well wishers of the family dolence message said, “Saddened to he time tested DMK- which it contested in the 2016 and Customs on the opposition February 17 in a high security zone claimed. hear about the tragic loss of Akash TCongress alliance in Tamil assembly election. But Stalin party leaders. But I am not one of Sonwar during the visit of a 24 The government should have Mehra, son of the owner of Krishna Nadu is on the verge of collapse has reportedly told the to be frightened by such deeds,” member foreign delegation, lost a cru- responded swiftly. “It was a targeted Dhaba in Srinagar. Condolences to the as Congress scion Rahul Congress leaders that the his said the Congress leader. cial battle of life in a killing to scare away members of the bereaved family. May God give Gandhi has not mentioned the party should have at least 170 Even as the DMK- Srinagar hospital in the wee hours of minority community”, the relatives of strength to the family to bear this names of his alliance partner or seats of its own for the smooth Congress seat sharing talks Sunday. the family said. irreparable loss.Terrorists will never its supreme leader during the functioning of the government remaining inconclusive, the According to close family mem- Ramesh Kumar Mehra, father of succeed in their nefarious first two days of his three-day to be formed post-election. AIADMK sealed a pact with bers, “Aakash was on ventilator sup- Aakash Mehra, has been running the designs, and those responsible for tour in southern districts which A senior Congress leader the Vanniyar dominated PMK port for the last two days in SMHS food joint since 1984 in the area. He such heinous acts shall be brought to began on Saturday. who shared with The Pioneer late Saturday. The PMK, one of hospital Srinagar. His condition dete- stayed there during the peak militancy justice”. No DMK leaders were seen the developments said that the the tough customers among the riorated in the wee hours of Sunday and never faced any security Former Chief Minister Omar sharing the stage with Rahul DMK has been threatened by AIADMK alliance partners, before succumbing to his fatal threat. Abdullah posted a tweet after learn- Gandhi in Thoothukudi or the BJP not to part with more was allocated 23 seats. Chief injuries”. The eatery served only vegetari- ing about the death of Aakash. Omar Tirunelveli districts and this is seats. “The DMK’s track record Minister Edappadi Aakash had received bullet an food and was frequented by a large tweeted, “Very sad news about Akash, being seen as an allis not well while in the UPA Government Palaniswami and his deputy O injuries in his abdomen and chest number of tourists and local residents. son of the owner of Krishna Dhaba in in the ties between the two paris not clean. The BJP would not Panneerselvam were holding Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir reported report- from a very close range. Several VVIP's including former Srinagar. ties. hesitate to unleash the investi- discussions with the BJP State ed 58 new Covid cases and one pandemic The mortal remains of the young Chief Minister Omar Abdullah too After a brave fight he lost the bat- In earlier occasions, the gating agencies against them if leadership on Sunday and a for- related death in the last 24 hours while 62 businessman were shifted to Jammu visited the food joint to relish his tle to recover from injuries suffered DMK chief M K Stalin would the party leadership does not mal announcement was patients recovered from the deadly virus on to perform his last rites. favorite food items. in the earlier attack. May his soul rest be seen sharing the stage and listen to the Central govern- expected either late evening or Sunday. Several close relatives and fami- Two days after the terror attack on in peace & may his family find in all public appearances of the ment’s orders,” said the former on Monday. An official bulletin said out of 58 new ly friends, who attended the last the famous eatery Inspector General strength at this difficult time”. PDP former president of the union minister who The Indian Justice Katchi Covid cases, 11 were from Jammu while 47 rites, criticised the union territory of Police, Kashmir range Vijay Kumar Chief Mehbooba Mufti also tweeted Congress party. The talks did not want his name to be (Katchi is the Tamil for party) were from Kashmir. administration headed by Lt-Gov had claimed all three terrorists a condolence message saying, between the DMK and the quoted. launched by T R Patchamuthu So far, 126,441 people have been infect- Manoj Sinha for not organising bet- involved in the attack were arrested “Shocked & saddened to know that Congress over the sharing of Rahul Gandhi’s speech at MP , an alliance partner of the ed with coronavirus in J&K out of which ter treatment facilities outside Jammu by the police from Pulwama and Akash Mehra who ran Krishna Dhaba seats for the upcoming assem- Thoothukudi on Saturday and DMK who came out of the 123,661 have recovered while the death toll and Kashmir to save the precious life Dangerpora in Baramulla. in Srinagar succumbed to his injuries bly election in the State has it at Tirunelveli on Sunday gave front is giving shape to a Third has reached 1,957. of a young businessman. The terror attack, according to after being shot at by militants. May a roadblock following the enough hints about his dis- Front with Kamal Haassan as The number of active cases is 823, of “The authorities wasted precious police, was a planned strike to scare his soul rest in peace & refusal of the former to part pleasure over the intransigence the chief ministerial candi- which 207 are from Jammu division and 616 time and also misled the family dur- away non-locals settled in Kashmir. deepest condolences to the bereaved with more than 20 seats. of the DMK. “The Narendra date. are from Kashmir division. IANS ing the period of the last 11 days.If According to police, the terrorists had family”. 2J' ' $ (:J < I $ "&$"$" $ 7 !" &$* %& Agra (Uttar Pradesh): A 22-year-old Dalit man, who went to meet Mangaluru: Lashing out at the BJP them and the state government's value Patna: The nephew of Congress MLA Santosh Mishra has been his girlfriend from a different caste, was beaten to death by her fam- Government in Karnataka for its failure added tax (VAT), which account for over gunned down by six unidentified bike-borne assailants in ily members in Agra, police said on Sunday. to contain the outbreak of the Covid-19 50 per cent of fuel retail price per litre,” Bihar's Rohtas district. Sambhal (UP): A 26-year-old police consta- The man succumbed to injuries at a hospital. Five members of pandemic, the Karnatka Congress chief said Shivakumar on the second day of The deceased, Sanjiv Mishra (35), was the nephew of ble was found dead under mysterious cir- the woman's family have been arrested. DK Shivakumar on Sunday sought his trip to the coastal region. Santosh Mishra, a Congress MLA from cumstances in the barracks of Naraura Bairaj According to reports, the deceased Pawan Kumar, was in a rela- details of the relief aid provided to the Alarmed over the apathy of the rul- Kargahar constituency in Rohtas district. Sanjiv sustained four flyover police post under Gunnaur police sta- tionship with the 20-year-old woman, belonging to another caste. Covid-affected people, especially the ing BJP to the plight of the people, as gunshot injuries on Saturday evening and tion in Sambhal. He had been married two The woman, on Friday, had called Pawan Kumar to meet her migrants, labourers and displaced peo- price of petrol crossed Rs 100 per litre succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital in near- months ago. The deceased, Shailendra Yadav, late in the night. Kumar was mercilessly thrashed at the woman's ple in the State. and diesel Rs 90 per litre in some states by Mohania. 26, was deputed at Sambhal Police Lines and house by her family members. On hearing his screams, the locals “Though Prime Minister Narendra due to high taxes, Shivakumar wondered Eyewitnesses said that six unknown assailants rode three was on duty at Naraura police picket under informed the police that rescued him. Modi claimed to have allocated a Rs 20 if Prime Minister Modi cared about the bikes to the house of Sanjiv Mishra located in Parsathua vil- Gunnaur police station limits on Saturday when Kumar's brother, Akash, said, “We came to know about the inci- lakh crore package to the Covid-hit peo- poor and the middle class. lage and opened fire on him indiscriminately. The assailants he was found lying unconscious in the barracks. dent on Saturday. We found him lying inside a police van. He was ple across the country, the Karnataka “Taxes on petrol during the fled from the spot without any resistance after committing the Senior police officers said the constable taken to district hospital where he succumbed. Before dying, he nar- government has not given the details of Congress-led United Progressive crime. died of a cardiac arrest while on duty. rated the entire incident to the police. He was called by the woman the relief aid provided to the beneficia- Alliance-2 government in 2013-14 was Sanjiv Mishra was expected to contest the panchayat elec- Sambhal Superintendent of Police, at her home and then her family brutally beat him up.” ries, including the 'beedi' workers in this Rs 10.7 on petrol per litre and Rs 4.9 on tions and was preparing for it. He was one of the most active Chakresh Mishra, said: “After getting infor- Additional Superintendent of Police Mukesh Chandra Mishra coastal region,” Shivakumar told the diesel per litre. persons who recently campaigned for his uncle Santosh Mishra mation, police teams were rushed to the spot said, “A case has been registered under IPC section 302 (murder) media here. “In the present BJP dispensation, and was quite popular at the ground level. and the constable was taken to the district against seven persons, including the woman's father and five other Asserting that he would raise the central taxes like excise duty have shot The family members of Sanjiv Mishra suspect that it could hospital where doctors proclaimed him dead family members. Five have been arrested. The matter is being probed mismanagement of the Covid relief up to Rs 32.9 per litre of petrol and Rs be a political killing to prevent him from contesting the upcom- upon arrival.” further.” measures during the pandemic in the 32.80 per litre of diesel, which are fuel- ing panchayat polls. “No visible bruises or any evidence of sui- Rasoolpur SHO Fateh Bahadur Bhadauria, said, “The man was ensuing state Budget session starting ing the inflation,” Shivakumar said. Mandeep Mishra, the brother of Sanjiv Mishra, said, “He cide were found. Besides, we have not recov- tied up and beaten with sticks. The body has been sent for post March 4, the Congress lawmaker The Karnataka Pradesh Congress did not have personal enmity with anybody. Investigation ered a suicide note. The constable suffered a mortem. The woman's father and other relatives have confessed to lamented that the Central and state gov- Committee (KPCC) President also would reveal the actual reason behind the murder.” cardiac arrest and died on the spot. The body their crime. The woman, along with four others, will be sent to jail. ernments were indifferent to the welfare accused the BJP government in the Vinod Kumar Rawat, Deputy Superintendent Of Police was sent for a post-mortem examination to Two others are absconding.” of the people. southern state of increasing the prop- (DSP) of Kargahar range, said, “We are investigating the mat- ascertain the actual reason for death,” he said. Sources said that Kumar and the woman knew each other and “Petrol and diesel prices have shot erty tax amid the Covid-19 pandemic ter from all the angles and recording the statements of the eye- Sambhal police said that financial assis- they were in regular touch over the phone for several months. The up 10 times in the recent days, as the and at a time when people were in dis- witnesses. We have received some clues about the accused and tance will also be provided to the family of the woman's family was against their friendship and Kumar had been Centre refuses to reduce excise duty on tress. IANS raids are on to nab them.” IANS deceased. IANS warned to stay away from her. IANS ! ! "P+"#+,"& ,-.-#$##-/ (<( tion to the latter. to facilitate a comprehensive nation, leader of the party’s minister Dhananjay sion beginning here from minister and senior BJP to my colleagues and decide,” Talking to media persons probe. Opposition in the State Munde, who is facing an accu- Monday. Devenra Fadnavis had Pawar had said. fter the ruling Shiv Sena later in the evening, Uddhav On their part, Pooja’s par- Assembly and senior BJP leader sation of a rape made by a It may be recalled that on demanded that Pooja’s death be However, two days later, Atook the wind out of its said: “Rathod has resigned ents had requested the chief Devendra Fadnavis said: “The woman. February 8, Pooja had alleged- investigated in view of the fact Pawar had softened his stand sails by seeking the resignation from the State Cabinet of his minister not to accept the res- minister’s resignation is not Earlier this month, a ly committed suicide by jump- that the telephonic conversa- over the accusation of rape of its Tik Tok star Pooja own free will. I have ordered an ignation of Rathod. They, how- enough. An FIR should be woman lodged a complaint ing off the Heaven Park build- tions between her and the made by a woman against Chavan’s alleged suicide-linked impartial probe into the cir- ever, said that they wanted the registered immediately against with the Mumbai police against ing in Pune’s Wanwadi locali- minister had gone viral on Munde after two more politi- Minister Sanjay Rathod, the cumstances leading to the state government to take Rathod. We also demand that Maharashtra’s Social Justice ty on the intervening night of society media. The Opposition cal leaders alleged that the Opposition BJP on Sunday re- alleged suicide by Pooja action against the minister or the police officers who have not Minister Dhananjay Munde February 7 and 8. leaders alleged that Pooja was woman was trying to honey calibrated its strategy to target Chavan” anyone else if found responsi- for the past 20 days not regis- for alleged rape. Following the Following her death, the pregnant at the time of death trap them, and said that the the rape-accused NCP Minister Earlier in the day, Pooja ble for their daughter’s death in tered an FIR against the min- complaint, the BJP had upped Opposition BJP on Saturday and that there were reasons to police be allowed to investigate Dhananjay Munde, ahead of Chavan’s father Lahu Chavan, the probe. ister be suspended to facilitate the ante, by demanding the had upped the ante over the believe that the minister was the matter. the 10-day Budget session her mother Mandodari Chavan Talking separately to the an impartial probe”. minister’s resignation on alleged of a 22-year-old Tik- responsible for her Ruling out Indirectly any beginning here from and sister Devyani called on the media, Rathod -- a prominent Charging that the chief “moral grounds” and also seek- Tok star Pooja Chavan, by pregnancy. possible action against Munde Monday. Chief Minister and submitted leader of the Banjara commu- minister had tried to shield the ing action against him from the rooting for the arrest of Rathod, In the case of Muinde, at the party level, Pawar said:: As the Opposition BJP him a memorandum to the nity from eastern Maharashtra Sena minister facing charges of Election Commission for who was reportedly in love Pawar had at an initial stage (on “Since allegations have been readied itself to the corner the At his news conference, the --said: I have submitted my res- abetting the suicide of Pooja, allegedly suppressing informa- with the deceased woman. February 13) termed the made against the woman who Shiv Sena-led MVA govern- chief minister asked ignation to the chief minister. former chief minister and tion that he had two BJP leaders Radhakrishna charges made by a woman has complained against Munde, ment over the resignation of Parliamentary Affairs Minister The death of the girl who is also senior BJP leader Narayan wives. Vikhe-Patil, Kirit Somaiya and against his party’s minister we have come to a conclusion the Sena’s Forest Minister Anil Parab to read out the res- from Banjara community, is Rane demanded that Rathod be Notwithstanding the res- party’s woman leader Chitra were “serious” and said that he that the police be allowed to do linked to the alleged suicide by ignation letter of Rathod and very unfortunate. Over the immediately arrested to facili- ignation of Rathod, the BJP will Wagh had said that the minis- would take a call on the issue, a comprehensive probe into the 22-year-old Pooja , 49-year-old the memorandum submitted past few weeks, the Opposition tate an impartial probe. not only go all out to target the ter had no moral right to con- after consulting his senior matter. We are confident that Rathod -- accompanied by his by Pooja’s parents. has politicised the issue on In a development that MVA government over his tinue in the office. “In fact, he party’s important colleagues. the police will do a good job. wife Shital -- called on In his resignation letter, social media and maligned me came after Rathod’s resignation, alleged link with Pooja’s suicide, should be booked abetting “The charges are serious..The Hence we will not interfere in Maharashtra Chief Minister Rathod urged the chief minis- and my community. The the State BJP president it will also try to corner the Pooja’s alleged suicide and matter is with the police...it is the probe. All we have sug- Uddhav Thackeray at the latter to order a detailed probe Opposition has even tried to Chandrakant Patil shifted the Uddhav Thackeray dispensa- arrested immediately,” Wagh also in court...they will decide, gested to the government is that ter’s official residence Varsha into the death of the girl and finish me politically”. goal post and asked NCP chief tion over Munde’s resignation said. however, we as a party would an ACP-level woman officer be and handed over his resigna- said he would like to step aside Unfazed by Rathod’s resig- Sharad Pawar to act against his in the 10-day-long budget ses- Maharashtra’s former chief have to decide on it. I will speak asked to conduct the probe”. !"! 0

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Aforms in Europe, the prising disposition as a virtue, ed to the private sphere, but by modifying it to suit their Muhammad Iqbal and, eventu- Jaffrelot writes that, in US, Turkey and India in the last as long as it benefitted human- religions that were willing to nationalisms. For example, ally, the barrister Muhammad 1974, the passage of the Second five years or so, suggests that ity. This not only seeded the take part in rational debate and ‘Arab Nationalism’ adopted Ali Jinnah formulated what Amendment constitutionally the world has entered a “post- idea of “humanism”, it also gave accept the new secular para- secularism because it saw its Talal Asad calls “cultural secu- rolled back the project by mak- secular age.” But critics of this birth to ideas that formulated digm, were welcome to oper- anti-colonial religious contem- larism.” Instead of separating ing Islam in Pakistan exclu- thesis fear that it is conceiving the mechanisms of modernity. ate in the public sphere. poraries as competition. It religion from politics, they sivist. Then, various ordinances secularism in its most simplis- # According to Asad, With the expansion of adopted the inclusive secular separated the cultural dynam- between 1979 and 1991 almost tic form. Secularism has Christianity’s spiritual promise modernity, the idea of secular- France it had appeared as a version, even though Arab ics of Islam from the faith’s the- entirely expunged the inclusive evolved in a highly complex that “Christ died to save all ism spread from Europe to revolt against religion (during nationalist regimes were dicta- ological and ritualistic dimen- idea of Islam. This aided vari- manner, as demonstrated by humanity” was folded into a other regions. But it mutated to the 18th century French torial and often jailed leaders of sions, to create a political ide- ous far-Right religious groups anthropologist Talal Asad and political promise “the world accommodate non-Western Revolution). known as ‘Laïcité’ religious groups who chal- ology of cultural separatism. to assert themselves in the philosopher Charles Taylor. must be changed for Christ.” realities. For example, although it barely tolerates any display of lenged the Arab nationalist According to Jaffrelot, they public sphere, without being Both saw secularism Therefore, both Taylor and it arrived as an inclusive idea religion in the public sphere. narrative. According to the placed Islam as a cultural iden- challenged by the State. emerging from a process of Asad see the emergence of the that advocated the privatisation Unlike inclusive secularism in French political scientist tity-marker in the public arena, Secularism is in crisis, but reform during the Middle idea of secularism springing of the sacred and the institu- the US and European coun- Christophe Jaffrelot, a unique whereas the faith’s theological mostly in developing countries. Ages, so that a society free of not from an averse reaction to tionalisation of the profane as tries, where the State remains mutation of secularism and ritual aspects were pushed This has been the case for quite superstition, could be formed. religion but from an urge to a way to construct a rational impersonal towards religion emerged in colonial India. to the private sphere. This is some time now. India is the Asad’s overall position is that reform it in a rapidly evolving nationalistic whole, in commu- as long as it does not threaten Jaffrelot says that followers of why the founders of Pakistan exception, where this crisis is secularism’s origins cannot be milieu. To Asad, even though nist set-ups it radically hard- the liberal-democratic order, the 19th century Indian were never really demonstra- relatively recent. Ironically, the pinned entirely to a single the disenchantment process ened by completely expunging Laïcité sanctions it to aggres- Muslim scholar Syed Ahmad tive about their religiosity (or crisis in this context in India is occurrence, while Taylor says within Christianity saw it religion. But this hardness was sively intervene to discourage Khan, politicised his reforma- lack thereof). They under- being compounded by the act that the demystification of accepting reformist ideas, the also present in France. religion in the public sphere. tive Islamist narrative by form- stood Muslim nationalism as a of treating secularism as it was Christianity aided the once traditional notions of Christian According to Taylor, Interestingly, this is also the ing the Muslim League. cultural and political idea of a treated in Pakistan from 1974 superstitious layman to access Courtesy: Dawn. morality, for example, did not whereas secularism elsewhere form of secularism that Turkey Eventually, the party moved modern Muslim-majority onwards. The results were a disenchanted understanding The views expressed are really wither away. Asad writes in Europe had largely emerged towards demanding a separate State, but one that would disastrous, as they will be in personal. adopted after it became a of the scriptures. Christian that religion was never entire- from reformed Christianity, in republic in 1922. Muslim-majority State. Syed, remain impersonal towards India too. !"! !6

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Photos of shell cas- ple were killed during a protest takeover, according to the inde- idents were pleading with police and endorse that, My Republica Minister Oli, amidst a tussle for Oli's Press Advisor Surya in Yangon, Dawei, Mandalay, ings from live ammunition used march. pendent Assistance Association to release those they picked up newspaper reported. power within the ruling Nepal Thapa last week said the prime Myeik, Bago and Pokokku,” it in assault rifles were posted on The fatalities could not of Political Prisoners. from the street and shoved into “K P Oli is still the parlia- Communist Party (NCP). minister will not resign imme- said in a statement, referring to social media. immediately be independently The Feb. 1 coup reversed police trucks to be taken away. mentary party leader of the In a landmark ruling, a diately and implement the several cities in Myanmar. Reports on social media confirmed, though photos post- years of slow progress toward Dozens or more were believed NCP. He is the party chairman five-member constitutional Supreme Court's verdict “Tear gas was also report- identified by name one young ed on social media showed a democracy after five decades of to have been detained. as well as the prime minister,” bench led by Chief Justice against him by facing edly used in various locations man believed to have been wounded man in the care of military rule. Suu Kyi's National Demonstrators regrouped 69-year-old Oli said. “If you Cholendra Shumsher last week Parliament. as well as flash-bang and stun killed in Yangon. His body was medical personnel, and later laid League for Democracy party later Sunday and security forces have restored parliament, annulled the Oli government's Oli is under pressure to grenades.” shown in photos and videos out in a bed under a blanket would have been installed for a continued to chase them in sev- remove KP Oli from the prime “unconstitutional” decision to step down following the court “We strongly condemn the lying on a sidewalk until other with flowers placed on top. second five-year term in office, eral neighborhoods. ministerial post.” dissolve the 275-member lower verdict. escalating violence against protesters were able to carry him Confirming reports of pro- but the army blocked There was no immediate Nepal plunged into a polit- house of Parliament. The court NCP Vice-president protests in Myanmar and call away. testers' deaths has been difficult Parliament from convening and word on Yangon casualties. ical crisis on December 20 ordered the government to Bamdev Gautam, who main- on the military to immediate- A violent crackdown also amid the chaos and general lack detained her and President Win Sounds of gunfire could be after President Bidya Devi summon the House session tained a balance between Oli ly halt the use of force against occurred in Dawei, a much of news from official sources. Myint, as well as other top heard in the streets and there Bhandari dissolved the House within the next 13 days. and his rival Prachanda, last peaceful protesters,” its smaller city in southeastern Prior to Sunday, there had been members of Suu Kyi's govern- were what appeared to be smoke and announced fresh elections The ruling party suffered a week urged the prime minister spokesperson Ravina Myanmar, where local media eight confirmed reports of ment. grenades thrown into the on April 30 and May 10 at the vertical split following Oli's to step down. PTI Shamdasani was quoted saying. reported that at least three peo- killings linked to the army's Sunday's violence erupted crowds. AP #$# ## :4$ # % ' # 7 /% ! :3 protect the most vulnerable should be applaud- . ed,” he said. Washington: Eight years after carv- for Justice's voting rights and elections against discrimination at the ballot he UK's vaccination programme against The latest move comes after the NHS wrote Mexico City: Ten men were killed and a ing the heart out of a landmark vot- program. box because it forced state and local TCovid-19 enters a new phase on Sunday as to almost 450,000 people aged 64 along with woman and two boys were wounded in a ing rights law, the Supreme Court is Arizona Attorney General Mark governments, with a history of dis- the National Health Service (NHS) will begin 600,000 who have recently been asked to shooting attack on a home in western looking at putting new limits on Brnovich, a Republican, said the high crimination, including Arizona, to get contacting all over-60s to book their jabs at the shield due to underlying health conditions last Mexico on Saturday. efforts to combat racial discrimination court case is about ballot integrity, not advance approval from the Justice nearest vaccination centre or with a general week. Prosecutors in the state of Jalisco said the in voting. discrimination. “This is about pro- Department or a federal court before practitioner (GP) or | “The NHS vaccination programme, the bullet-ridden bodies of the 10 men were The justices are taking up a case tecting the franchise, not disenfran- making any changes to elections. pharmacy. biggest in the health service's history and fastest found by police on the sidewalk in front of about Arizona restrictions on ballot chising anyone,” said Brnovich, who In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled Almost 2 million people aged 60 to 63 will in Europe, goes from strength to strength. I the home. Another wounded boy was found collection and another policy that will argue the case on Tuesday. 5-4 that the portion of the law known be invited after over 64s had been covered in would urge anyone who has been invited to take inside, and a woman and another boy were penalises voters who cast ballots in the President Joe Biden narrowly as Section 5 could no longer be the previous phase and letters will start arriv- up the offer – it doesn't matter when you were located at a local hospital. wrong precinct. won Arizona last year, and since enforced because the population for- ing from Monday explaining how they can make invited you can still come forward and protect The prosecutors' office said the attack The high court's consideration 2018, the state has elected two mula for determining which states an appointment for the jab. yourself and others,” said Professor Stephen was carried out by unidentified assailants comes as Republican officials in the Democratic senators. were covered hadn't been updated to They follow more than three in four peo- Powis, NHS national medical director. travelling in an SUV. state and around the country have The justices will be reviewing an take account of racial progress. ple aged 65 to 70 taking up the offer of a vac- The push to get as many of the most at-risk The state is home to the Jalisco New proposed more than 150 measures, appeals court ruling against a 2016 Congress “must identify those cination and nearly 17 million people across people protected means nine in 10 people in the Generation Cartel, one of Mexico's most vio- following last year's elections, to Arizona law that limits who can jurisdictions to be singled out on a England, over a third of the adult population, top four priority groups have received a jab. The lent and powerful. More bodies have been restrict voting access that civil rights return early ballots for another per- basis that makes sense in light of cur- having received the “life-saving jab”. UK government aims to give a jab to all over- found in clandestine burial pits in Jalisco groups say would disproportionately son and against a separate state poli- rent conditions,” Chief Justice John “Our incredible vaccination programme is 50s and those in specific at-risk groups by April there than in any other state in recent years. affect Black and Hispanic voters. cy of discarding ballots if a voter goes Roberts wrote for a conservative accelerating and well over one in three people 15 and all other adults are expected to be offered The cartel has been fighting a breakaway fac- A broad Supreme Court ruling to the wrong precinct. majority. across the UK have now received their first jab,” their first dose by July 31. tion in and around Guadalajara. would make it harder to fight those The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of “It cannot rely simply on the past.” said Nadhim Zahawi, UK Vaccine Deployment “Since around four-fifths of 65-69 year olds Earlier this month, police found 18 plas- efforts in court. Arguments are set for Appeals ruled that the ballot-collec- Democrats in Congress will try again Minister. have now been vaccinated, we're rapidly work- tic bags full of hacked-up body parts on the Tuesday via telephone, because of the tion law and the state policy dis- to revive the advance approval provi- “We are now inviting those aged 60 to 63 ing our way down the generations, with peo- outskirts of Guadalajara, the state capital. coronavirus pandemic. criminate against minority voters in sion of the voting rights law. The John to receive their vaccines and I urge everybody ple ages 60+ now able to come forward. As In November, Jalisco authorities recov- “It would be taking away one of violation of the federal Voting Rights Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to come forward as quickly as possible to pro- expected vaccine supply increases in March, ered 113 bodies and additional human the big tools, in fact, the main tool we Act and that the law also violates the failed in the last Congress, when tect yourself and others from this terrible virus. we're planning for further acceleration as we remains from a secret grave in the town of have left now, to protect voters against Constitution. Republicans controlled the Senate Thank you to everyone on the frontline, head towards Easter,” said Sir Simon Stevens, El Salto, just outside Guadalajara. A total of racial discrimination,” said Myrna The Voting Rights Act, first enact- and President Donald Trump was in including NHS vaccinators, GPs, pharmacists chief executive of NHS 189 corpses were discovered in the town Perez, director of the Brennan Center ed in 1965, was extremely effective the White House. AP and volunteers, whose unrivalled dedication to England. throughout 2020. AP $ 70 ( 0$ I < 7+, I! United Nations: Reiterating that tus issues. Both sides must avoid of an independent and sovereign only a two-state solution will any unilateral action which could Palestinian State based on the 86# at least six months after a single- 7 deliver enduring peace that the prejudice these final status issues,” 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as dose inoculation and it can people of Israel and Palestine he said. its capital. The Envoys of the hina has given conditional increase immune response by 10 New York: Underlining cooperation in the therapy machine from India. deserve, India has said this should Naidu termed the recent Middle East Quartet – Russia, Capproval for a single dose to 20 times if the second dose is health sector, India has donated an advanced “This reflects growing ties between the be achieved through direct nego- diplomatic efforts to revive the United States, European Union Covid-19 vaccine, touted to be a taken half a year after the first telecobalt machine for cancer treatment, two Indian Ocean neighbours under our tiations between both sides on stalled peace talks as encourag- and United Nations - met virtu- rival to Johnson & Johnson's one- one, the report said. developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of final status issues and any uni- ing and added that the meeting ally on February 15 to discuss the jab shot cleared by the US drug With this, China's medical Centre, to the island nation of SAGAR i.E. Security and Growth for All in lateral action which could prej- of the Quartet's Special Envoys is political developments, with all regulator on Sunday. products regulator has approved Madagascar. the Indian Ocean Region,” Kumar said. udice these issues must be avoid- timely. India urged the Quartet to agreeing to meet on a regular China's first Ad5-nCoV five coronavirus vaccines which The advanced digital cobalt therapy Rajoelina added that cancer is often ed. initiate engagement with the basis. COVID-19 vaccine was rolled include Sinovac, Sinopharm, machine 'Bhabhatron-II' was inaugurated at poorly treated because of lack of screening India's Deputy Permanent Israeli and the Palestinian lead- Naidu also added that India out on Friday, the state-run CanSinoBio and another by the Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona and oncology treatment facilities. Representative to the UN ership. “India welcomes all is pleased to note that prepara- Global Times reported on Wuhan Institute of Biological Hospital (HJRA) in Antananarivo, capital of “Majority of people affected by cancer Ambassador K Nagaraj Naidu efforts, which are aimed at tions for the Palestinian elections Sunday. Products. Madagascar by President Andry Rajoelina had no other option than medical evacua- said on Friday at the UN Security strengthening the collective com- are moving forward. The Cairo Phase-I clinical trials of the One of the developers of the this week. tion. Obviously, under these conditions, Council meeting on ‘The situa- mitment of the international agreement between the vaccine started on March 16, last Ad5-nCoV vaccine said that the Speaking on the occasion, Rajoelina said health had become a privilege and no tion in the Middle East, includ- community to resume direct Palestinian parties on the conduct year, making it the world's first annual production capacity can cancer is a disease that affects more and more longer a right. The setting up of this centre, ing the Palestinian question' that negotiations and facilitate the of parliamentary and presidential COVID-19 candidate vaccine reach 500 million doses, which people in our society and is one of the lead- therefore, is a real solution to facilitate and New Delhi reaffirms its support peace process,” Naidu said. elections - to abide by the elec- that entered clinical trials, it means 500 million people can be ing causes of mortality, according to a press allow the oncology treatment for Malagasy to the Palestinian cause and the Special Coordinator for the toral timetable, accept the results said. vaccinated in a year. release. people in Madagascar,” Rajoelina said. establishment of a sovereign, Middle East Peace Process and of the election and on other elec- It is the only single-dose Phase-I clinical trials of the India's Ambassador to Madagascar Rajoelina expressed gratitude to the viable and independent State of Personal Representative of the tion related arrangements - is a COVID-19 vaccine that has been vaccine started on March 16, Abhay Kumar, addressing the audience at the Government of India for its donation of the Palestine living side by side in Secretary-General Tor positive step in the right direc- given conditional approval to be 2020, making it the world's first inauguration, said cancer is a major health radiotherapy device. peace and security with Israel. Wennesland told the Council tion, he said. rolled out in China, the report COVID-19 candidate vaccine problem affecting a large number of people “The Malagasy State is pursuing its mis- “We firmly believe that only meeting that the global commu- Noting that the commit- quoted last Friday's story by the that entered clinical trials, the globally. sion and this radiotherapy centre is a great a two-state solution will deliver nity is focused on helping the par- ment undertaken by all parties to state broadcaster China Central Global Times report said. Kumar said that during the visit of step towards improving the quality of life of enduring peace that the people of ties return to the negotiating release political detainees will also Television (CCTV). Though China has been sup- President Ram Nath Kovind to Madagascar the population and the modernisation of the Israel and Palestine desire and table. help build trust between them, People can get desirable pro- plying its vaccines to different in March 2018, it was announced that the health system in Madagascar,” Rajoelina said. deserve. This should be achieved Earlier this month, the India acknowledged Egypt's tective effect after 14 days of countries, none of them have Bhabhatron machine would be donated to The machine has been functional at through direct negotiations League of Arab States reiterated efforts in facilitating this agree- inoculation. been approved by the World Madagascar, which is one of the few coun- HJRA since January and has the capacity to between both sides on final sta- its support for the establishment ment. PTI The protective effect can last Health Organisation (WHO). tries to have received the Bhabhatron-II radio treat 50 patients per day. PTI < $$ <+)8 7 '$ " 01 G $ $ 2'< $$: Cairo: A UN humanitarian The response to the U.N. = # ' !" 4 agency on Sunday warned that Appeal is unlikely to meet ! of bodies washing ashore later has more than 16 million people in expectations, given that the Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday decried the sadly become too familiar,” she Yemen would go hungry this coronavirus pandemic and its kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding t least 15 Africans drowned when added. year, with already some half a devastating consequences hit school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls' Atheir boat capsized Sunday off Sunday's shipwreck was the latest $ 56$"$ million people in the war-torn economies around quick release. Libya, a UN spokeswoman said, the along the Central Mediterranean country living in famine-like the globe. Addressing the public in St. Peter's Square, second shipwreck involving migrants migration route. At least 41 migrants Tehran: Iran has surpassed elers from a list of 32 countries, conditions. Wealthy Gulf donors such Francis said he was adding his voice to others includ- seeking a better life in Europe in just were reported dead last week, part of 60,000 known coronavirus- including Britain and other The UN Office for the as Saudi Arabia and the United ing Nigeria's bishop in condemning what he over a week. a group of some 120 migrants on a related deaths, the latest grim states in Africa and Latin Coordination of Humanitarian Arab Emirates, which con- described as “the vile abduction” of the girls. Safa Msehli, a spokesman for the dinghy that left the North African milestone for the hardest-hit America, due to fears of new Affairs, or OCHA, said the risk tributed generously to U.N. Police on Friday in Nigeria said gunmen had International Organization for country on Feb. 18. country in the Middle East. virus variants. of large-scale famine in the Appeals in 2018 and 2019, cut abducted the students from their boarding school. Migration, said the dead were on a Libya has become the major The Health Ministry Over the year, Iran has Arab world's poorest country back drastically on aid to Several large groups of armed men operate in the rubber boat carrying at least 110 transit point for African and Arab reported 93 new deaths from struggled with surges that at “has never been more acute,” Yemen last year. area and are known to kidnap for ransom money migrants, who embarked from the migrants hoping to reach Europe, COVID-19 on Sunday and times overwhelmed its health adding that the years-long con- Yemen's war started in and the release of their jailed cohorts. Libyan coastal town of Zawiya on after the North African country more than 8,000 new infec- system as authorities resisted a flict, economic decline, and 2014 when the Houthi rebels “I pray for these girls, so that they may return Friday. plunged into a bloody civil war fol- tions, pushing the total infec- total lockdown to salvage an institutional collapse created seized the capital, Sanaa, and home soon,'' the pope said. “I am close to their fam- The boat started to sink early lowing a NATO-backed uprising that tion count over 1.63 million. economy crippled by U.S. enormous humanitarian needs much of the country's north. ilies and to them,'' Francis said, asking people to join Sunday and the Libyan coast guard toppled and killed longtime ruler After more than a year of Sanctions. in all sectors. The Saudi-led, U.S.-backed him in prayer. managed to rescue at least 95 Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. the pandemic, deaths from Iran's vaccine drive recent- The stark warning comes coalition intervened months A resident of the area said the gunmen also migrants, including six women and Smugglers often pack desperate COVID-19 recently have ly has gotten underway, with a day before a pledging con- later to dislodge the rebels and attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, two children, she said. families into ill-equipped rubber declined in Iran as movement Russia's Sputnik V vaccine ference co-hosted by Sweden restore the internationally preventing soldiers from interfering with the mass Msehli said many of the survivors boats that stall and founder along the restrictions in the capital have administered to health workers and Switzerland. recognised government. abduction. suffered from burns from engine fuel, perilous Central Mediterranean route. set in, including inter-city trav- this month. An additional The U.N. Secretary- The conflict has killed On Saturday, authorities in Nigeria announced and hypothermia, with some taken to Over the last several years, hundreds el bans, mask mandates and 250,000 doses by the Chinese General Antonio Guterres will some 130,000 people and that nearly 40 students, teachers and relatives hospital. “It is an additional tragedy of thousands of migrants have school closures. state-backed pharmaceutical appeal for USD 3.85 billion in spawned the world's worst abducted on Feb. 17 from a school in northern that in most cases, there is very little reached Europe either on their own The government on Sinopharm arrived in Iran over relief aid for Yemen this year. humanitarian disaster. AP Nigeria have been freed. AP search to recover the bodies. The sight or after being rescued at sea. Sunday banned incoming trav- the weekend. AP !"! 7 8

er players with funds and their business scales up and flagged by the government or phase of accelerated technolo- "G(28 ( 8&& wherewithal of big legal teams user base grows in India. legal order has to be taken gy shifts. are the only ones who will be According to the amended down within 36 hours. The industry body had left to offer services”. IT rules, social media and An industry executive, who also pointed out that there is a &<#;!"(::8! " “(This could result in) streaming companies will be did not wish to be named, said need for “responsible use” and increasing the barrier for entry required to take down con- some companiesmay choose to building of technology for all 8938:; contact person and resident and raising compliance costs tentious content quicker, protect the privacy of users and stakeholders - government, grievance officer - with all for everyone,” she added. appoint grievance redressal challenge these rules in court. industry, startups and citizens. he new social media inter- three officials residing in India. India has 53 crore officers and assist in investiga- Also, the industry feels The option of voluntary Tmediary rules could raise Large players like Facebook WhatsApp users, 44.8 crore tions. that there needs to be clarity on self-verification of user compliance costs for players, have said they are studying the YouTube users, 41 crore The “Intermediary nuances like how long do users accounts, the right to receive an making it difficult for smaller rules. Facebook users, 21 crore use Guidelines and Digital Media have to be active to be count- explanatory notification on companies to compete against While many in the sector Instagram, while 1.75 crore Ethics Code” designed to curb ed as registered users, and removal or disablement of bigger giants like Facebook, have lauded the new regula- users are on microblogging misuse of social media plat- what happens if a platform access, and to seek remedy according to industry watchers. tions, saying these aim to platform Twitter, as per gov- forms require players like drops below the threshold of against the action being taken The new rules, announced address concerns like grievance ernment data. WhatsApp, Facebook and 50 lakh registered users. by the intermediaries would be last week, distinguish between redressal, fake news and online While players like Twitter as well as streaming ser- Rameesh Kailasam, helpful for end-users, Nasscom ‘social media intermediaries’ safety of users, a section of the Telegram and Signal do not dis- vices such as Netflix, YouTube CEO of IndiaTech.Org, had had said. and ‘significant social media industry has aired concerns close country-specific user and Amazon Prime Video to also cautioned that The association had also intermediaries’ with 50 lakh around increased compliance numbers, these platforms have appoint executives to coordi- while these rules are robust said the government has registered users as the thresh- cost that could be challenging seen a spike in downloads in nate with law enforcement, and elaborate, it may translate emphasised that the new rules old for the categorisation. for smaller players. the last few weeks on the back firms. that players like Telegram and disclose the first originator of into a certain degree of cost and will not curb creativity, and Significant social media Software Freedom Law of concerns around WhatsApp’s Telegram did not others may not have senior offi- provocative content and operational challenges with it. freedom of speech and expres- intermediaries will have to fol- Centre (SFLC) founder Mishi privacy policy update that seeks respond to queries on the cials based in India and that remove, within 24 hours, con- Nasscom had noted that it sion of citizens as it urged the low additional due diligence, Choudhary said the rules call to allow sharing limited user impact of the new rules on the they will now have to take a tent depicting nudity or mor- is imperative that there is a bal- government to ensure that this including the appointment of a for an undue burden and com- data with platform. series of steps to ensure com- phed pictures of women. ance between regulation and is the ‘design principle’ followed chief compliance officer, nodal pliance and “ensure only larg- Facebook and its group Industry observers noted pliance with the new norms as Any contentious content innovation as the world is in a during implementation. $!Q #'! 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Since fuel prices are bench- The country had pro- issues like sustainability, envi- one has to engage on those In the national capital, marked to a 15-day rolling duced 9.3 MT crude steel dur- ronment and labour have to be issues on the right platform. petrol was priced at Rs 91.17 average of global refined prod- ing the same month last year. discussed on the right platform “You cannot mix them with per litre, same as on Saturday. ucts’ prices and dollar exchange “The production for the 64 According to worldsteel South Korea’s steel production and in the right channels. trade issues,” he said adding that Similarly, in Mumbai, rate, pump prices can be countries reporting to the data, China had produced 84.3 in the month was at 6 MT, as “Those (carbon-based tar- the western countries have Chennai and Kolkata, the fuel expected to remain north- worldsteel was 162.9 MT in MT steel in the same month compared to 5.8 MT in the iffs) are typically non-trade evolved to their present levels was sold for Rs 97.57, Rs 93.11 88.60, Rs 86.45 and Rs 84.35 bound over the next few days January 2021, registering a 4.8 last year. Last month, year-ago period. issues which are coming into over the time and one should and Rs 91.35 a litre respective- per litre, respectively in Delhi, even if crude price stabilises. per cent increase compared to Japan’s output slipped 3.9 per Turkey produced 3.4 MT of the trade domain. not expect that developing ly. Oil marketing companies Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Oil companies executives January 2020,” the global indus- cent to 7.9 MT year-on-year. crude steel last month. It had “So, we always opposed world to evolve instantly. pressed the pause button after Petrol and diesel prices said that petrol and diesel try body said in its latest report. The US produced 6.9 MT produced 3 MT in January trade issues getting mixed up Talking about free-trade agree- raising the pump price of petrol have been rising continuously prices may increase further in China remained the global steel in the month under 2020. According to the with non-trade issues and espe- ments, he said these pacts put and diesel by 24 paise and 15 since February 9. coming days as retail prices leader in production of steel in review. Its output was at 7.7 MT report, while Germany pro- cially non-trade issues becom- competitive pressure on indus- paise per litre on Saturday. The increase in the previ- may have to be balanced in line January, registering 6.8 per in January 2020. duced 3.3 MT steel in January ing a lever for achieving your try and “I cannot underrate” the In line with petrol, diesel ous weeks has taken petrol to with global developments to cent year-on-year growth in Russia’s output last month was 2021, Brazil and Iran produced trade interest,” he said at the importance of FTAs for creat- prices also were unchanged cross historic high levels of Rs prevent OMCs from making output at 90.2 MT during the at 6.7 MT compared to 6 MT 3 MT and 2.6 MT, respective- Asia Economic Dialogue 2021. ing competitive pressure for on Sunday at Rs 81.47, Rs 100 a litre in several cities losses on sale of auto fuels. month. in January 2020. ly. The secretary was replying access to global markets. 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EY Tax Partner Abhishek GST provisions and e-com- ble for diluting the spirit of held in five states in the next tion services. Mjunction -- 2021 as compared to 18.67 MT in post the Union Budget Government has decided to Jain said most industry players merce majors, states would be GST, to their own likings and few months and as a vote bank a joint venture of Tata Steel and in the year-ago period. Of the which announced further lib- further extend the due date for were struggling to meet this the key focus of the protesting now they can’t escape from in all the states, the trading SAIL - is a B2B e-commerce total imports in January 2021, eralisation measures includ- furnishing of GSTR-9 and statutory deadline and had traders. their responsibilities,” it said. community holds a huge company and also publishes non-coking coal was at 12.77 ing privatisation of banks and GSTR-9C for the financial year represented to the government The campaign will begin CAIT alleged that the state majority in strength and num- research reports on coal and MT, while coking coal import also did not come up with a 2019-20 to March 31, 2021 with for an extension. on March 5 and will continue governments have left no stone bers and can be a deciding fac- steel verticals.However, India’s was 5.62 MT. During April- new tax levy.So far, in the the approval of Election Furnishing of the annual till April 5. unturned to distort the GST tor for the victory and defeat of coal imports in January January 2020-21, non-coking financial year 2021-22, net Commission of India,” the return is mandatory only for It said that at present, because of their own interests any political party. increased to 20.05 MT as coal import was at 119.84 MT FPIs into equities stood at Finance Ministry said in a taxpayers with aggregate annu- traders across the country are which has led to the sufferings Hence the decision of against 18.67 MT in year-ago as compared to 140.65 MT in 2.63 lakh crore, the highest statement. al turnover above Rs 2 crore badly plagued by the provisions of traders. CAIT to launch a nationwide period, it said. the same period a year ago. ever FPI inflow into the coun- GSTR 9 is an annual while reconciliation statement of GST and the constant arbi- In this context, CAIT has campaign amid elections and Commenting on the coal Coking coal import was try.Further, the net foreign return to be filed yearly by tax- is to be furnished only by the trariness of foreign companies urged the Union Finance the anger of traders can affect import trend, mjunction MD recorded at 39.16 MT, lower institutional investment (FII) payers registered under the registered persons having in e-commerce and now the Minister Nirmala Sitharaman the prospects of every political and CEO Vinaya Varma said, than 41.15 MT imported dur- during the month was Goods and Services Tax (GST). aggregate turnover above Rs 5 traders are either forced to that since is the Chairperson of party,” said the CAIT statement. “There was a drop in January ing the same period a year ago. 42,044.46 crore. It consists of details regarding crore. resolve these issues or shut their the GST Council, she should %%#' '' " (R R +( # O P &$%'>+5#' R , %'!1%?%'& 5 1@ 8938:; in kick-starting the economy.” He was of the view that / (' ":(3 decision would be taken only TS Infrastructure Ltd has completion of stalled projects 8938:; after seeking the approval of the Acome up with project man- and fast-tracking deliveries ;G38!3 He said the Telangana gov- akistan may allow cotton prime minister. agement consultancy - ‘Nirman will instil positive sentiment ST officers have arrested a ernment had submitted Pimport from India through “I cannot say yes or no at by ATS’ - to assist developers amongst homebuyers and all Gperson for creating ficti- , ith the information tech- Detailed Project Report and IT land route as prospects of grad- this stage and would be in a in completing stalled real estate other stakeholders. tious firms and committing Wnology exports from Cluster details but unfortu- ual restoration of bilateral trade better position to respond on projects and to provide respite Anand also said that there input tax credit fraud of &$ 4 Telangana likely to grow at nately neither ITIR has been ties have brightened after the Monday,” Dawood told the to distressed home buyers. can be several models of get- 50.03 crore, the finance min- seven per cent to cross 1.40 taken forward nor has there new ceasefire agreement along daily, responding to a question A company statement said ting involved in stalled pro- istry said on Sunday. 7 !2 lakh crore during 2020-21, the been an alternate progressive the Line of Control, according on whether Pakistan was con- that the consultancy targets to jects. There could be projects The officers of Central State’s IT minister KT Rama policy. KTR was reacting to to a media report on Sunday. sidering allowing cotton import acquire over 18 stalled and which are not in the NCLT, Goods and Services Tax Rao on Sunday said the growth reports that IT from Telangana Citing sources in the from India. delayed projects under resi- where ATS Nirman could (CGST) Commissionerate, rate would have been much is expected to grow over 7 per Ministry of Commerce, The The trade ties between dential and commercial seg- come in as third party, over- Delhi East have unearthed a higher if the Centre had not cent in 2020-21. According to Express Tribune reported that both the countries can help ments, over the next five years. see and help in rebuilding, network of fictitious firms scrapped the ITIR project. Nasscom, the national growth Adviser to the Prime Minister minimise cost of production in ‘Nirman by ATS’ will selling and manage the project which “was being operated by used to pass on fake Input Tax The Minister said he was rate during the same period is on Commerce Abdul Razak Pakistan and ensure sustained oversee, supervise and man- to its logical conclusion, he one Vishal, who is an advocate Credit to his clients in exchange delighted that projected estimated to be just 1.9 per Dawood may take a decision food supplies, the daily said. age the overall delivery expe- said. “Another model is where by profession and was practis- for a commission of 2 per cent Telangana IT export numbers cent.KTR recalled that in 2013- on whether to import cotton India and Pakistan issued rience of these projects. we could, with the existing ing law in Karkardooma Court, of the invoice amount. The show terrific growth, at a much 14, the IT exports from then and yarn from India next week. a joint statement on Thursday Initially. the consultancy financial institution or with a Delhi”, the ministry said in a total fake Input Tax Credit higher rate than national undivided Andhra Pradesh They said that the issue of to strictly observe all agree- will assist projects based out new financial institution bid statement. passed on quantified so far is averageRama Rao tweeted that were only 57,258 crore. cotton shortfall has already ments on ceasefire along the of the National Capital Region for the project in the NCLT, Vishal started this GST Rs 50.03 crore, which is expect- had the NDA government not The State had clocked over been brought to the notice of LoC and other sectors after the (NCR). where there is a management fraud by creating a fictitious ed to increase as the investiga- scrapped Information 1.28 lakh crore IT exports Prime Minister Imran Khan, hotline discussions by their Getamber Anand, CMD change,” he said. firm in his own name, which he tion progresses,” it added. Technology and Investment during 2019-20, a growth of who also holds the portfolio of Director Generals of Military of ATS Infrastructure Ltd Anand also said that the got registered at his residence. The accused have been Region (ITIR), much higher nearly 18 per cent over the pre- the commerce minister. Once Operations.The two countries said, “One of the major chal- company would also seek Subsequently, he arranged var- remanded to 14-day judicial employment/growth would’ve vious year.The state recorded a principled decision is taken, signed a ceasefire agreement in lenges being faced by the real funds from the SWAMIH ious KYCs of different persons custody till March 13. been possible. IT exports of 1,28,807 crore, aformal order will be present- 2003, but it has hardly been fol- estate sector is the completion (Special Window for to create multiple fictitious Since the inception of GST KTR, as the Minister is an increase of 17.93 per cent ed before the Economic lowed in letter and spirit over of stalled projects, which are Completion of Construction firms having no business activ- Central Tax, Delhi Zone has popularly known, said despite over 2018-19. The growth rate Coordination Committee of the past several years.Relations majorly trapped due to the of Affordable and Mid- ity and created for the passing made 27 arrests in various numerous personal requests was more than double the the Cabinet, the sources told between the two neighbours prevailing liquidity crunch. Income Housing Projects) on fake Input Tax Credit. cases, involving GST evasion to the Prime Minister and national average of 8.09 per the daily. have nose-dived after a series As the country faces an fund instituted by the “Multiple KYCs and amounting to more than Rs Union IT Minister, the ITIR cent and more than two-and- The sources said that in- of terror attacks in India overall economic slowdown, Ministry of Finance for com- cheques were resumed during 4,019.95 crore, the ministry has been scrapped for reasons a-half times the rest of the house deliberations have perpetrated by terror groups revival of the real estate sec- pletion of stalled housing pro- the search of his residence. He said. unknown. nation’s average of 6.92%. already begun but the final based in Pakistan. tor would play an integral role jects. !"! 1 #$% #& '# ( % ) #* % & '%# ( ) + L-(- * : *## %.// /#/ BALANCE OF BOTH WORLDS ( oung Bollywood star Bhumi Pednekar was launched Yher to stardom with her debut film, Dum Laga Ke Haisha (DLKH), in which she plays the role of an over- #"'. ,. " , ,. " " weight girl who stands up for her rights. Bhumi credits her debut, directed by Sharat Katariya, to be a milestone %'" #&$8 '''A#&!11 "$"'"$&$" moment that paved her path to glory. She was recently shooting in Rishikesh for her next Badhaai Do and was he trailer of horror-come- attribute this as one of the main extremely overwhelmed as she was shooting in the same dy Roohi opens with peo- reasons for the growing popular- house that was used for her debut film. Tple talking about a witch ity of this genre. The actress says, “DLKH is truly a milestone who preys upon newlyweds. Be it Chucha in Fukrey (2013) moment of my life and I can’t imagine how my career She sings and puts the grooms or Sexa in Chhichhore (2019), the would have shaped up without it. I was extremely for- to sleep and abducts their actor, known for his comic tim- tunate to get this film and everyone knows how hard I brides. As the three minute ing, has done a range of comedy worked to deliver this role. It was such a coincidence that teaser unfolds, we see actor roles now. So, what more does he I shot at the same location again for Badhaai Do. The Varun Sharma in two con- aim to explore? “I really like house which was my first ever loca- trasting looks. One, where making people laugh. All the tion, for my first film was used for he’s donning a never-seen- comic roles that I have done so far this film. I was so nostalgic. before avatar — with are very different from each other. What were the chances that after spooky makeup with blood It’s important to understand that six years, I would be at the running down his face, there’s a very thin line between same place!” dark circles, a blank stare with Rajkummar as they were ear- sit with the writers and learn that different styles of comedy and I She adds, “I was super and red hair. The other lier seen together in Dolly ki Doli accent. I watched a lot of tik tok want to attempt all of them. nostalgic to be actually stand- Varun is his casual comic (2015). The two share a great videos, listened to Bhojpuri songs Other than this, I am a huge fan ing at the same spot where self where he cracks jokes chemistry in real life, which and kept myself away from of thrillers too and would love to I gave my first shot as an with his co-stars Varun believes “translated on the Punjabi music so that I could get be a part of such films,” says actor. I remember we had Rajkummar Rao and screen too.” The actor is all praise the nuances of the dialect, make Varun. done about 11 takes for Janhvi Kapoor. for his co-star Janhvi too. He says, it my own and perform in it.” Even after doing a consider- this and I was so ner- As is evident “She is a phenomenal character. Horror-comedy is one of the able number of comedy films and vous. That is where from the trailer, the While filming this, she was doing most tricky genres to get right being asked about the fear of get- Bhumi the actor was fun quotient in the some other project too. So, she because maintaining the balance ting typecast, the actor chooses to born.” film seems to be top had to portray two different per- between the two — horror and stick to this genre. He shares that Bhumi says, “The class. Says Varun, sonalities on the same day, which comedy — is very important. it is the ‘smiling faces’ that keep film gave me an identity “There was a lot of she did with a lot of ease and fun. How did he make it work? Says him going. Adds he, “I love to see as an actress and enabled fun on the sets while Maza aa gaya!” Varun, “I think the conviction of people smile and laugh. It is then me to tell the world that I we were doing this What made him take up this the makers, directors, writers and that I think ‘why not continue was different, hungry, film. It is a very role? Well, the actor couldn’t actors did it. I should give it to the doing this.’ I am simultaneously ambitious, and that I would crazy concept with really decide one thing as the team.” trying other genres too but this is take incredible risks to carve three witches being whole concept intrigued him. There’s a very thin line not something that I am going to my legacy in the Hindi film caught in the adven- So, he takes a pause and says, “The between horror and comedy, one leave.” industry. Today, when I ture and falling in script is the strongest pillar. And moment it’s scary and the very The film was expected to look back at my debut, I’m love with a witch. We yaar kab life mein churail ke next moment you are laughing. release in June 2020 but got filled with gratitude are happy with the saath kaam karne ka mauka mile- “Yes, it’s a tough genre to portray delayed due to the pandemic. And towards everyone who way the trailer is being ga? (When will you get a role to correctly. A lot of time goes into now it has become the first film ensured that I do my best.” received. The enter- work with a witch?) This is real- writing the script so that the hor- to release in cinema halls after She credits the entire tainment quotient and ly interesting. I am a huge fan of ror as well as comic timing lands they have been allowed to oper- team of her first film for quirkiness is evident the film Stree (2018). I loved that correctly. No matter how much ate at full capacity. While the actor inculcating confidence in throughout.” film, so I was really excited to we try, if we don’t get the desired is clueless if this will give an her as an artiste. She says, Directed by Hardik work with the same makers and reaction, the scene would go flat. upperhand to the film, he’s just “Right from Shanoo, Adi Mehta, the film follows in the same genre. For all the right I hope people get entertained, they thankful to the makers that they sir, Maneesh Sharma, the eerie yet hilarious reasons, I immediately realised laugh at one point and get scared had the confidence of holding it Sharat Katariya and even adventures of Bhaura that I want to become a part of at the other,” adds Varun. for so long. “It is not easy to do Ayushmann (Khurrana) — (played by Rajkummar), this mad world.” He agrees that earlier this it, they stood by it to release it in everyone believed in me and Kattanni (played by But it wasn’t easy. Every role genre wasn’t explored much in the cinemas only. I just hope that the and that gave me so much Varun), as they come comes with its own set of prepa- Indian cinema. But in the last few audience will go back and enjoy. confidence to go out there across a peculiar girl ration and challenges. Varun had years, we have seen more films on People need entertainment to go and present myself as an Roohi (essayed by to step out from his usual Hindi- these lines, including Stree. through such times and our con- artiste. DLKH is and will Janhvi), in a for- Punjabi accent and learn the MP- “When I saw the film, I was scared stant effort has been to make them always be a film from which I har- est. UP style. Says he, “The biggest but in the very next moment I was laugh. I promise, you’ll come out ness confidence to take on more It is challenge was to portray my char- laughing with ease too. This of theatres laughing and taking risks, to experiment constantly and Varun’s acter right as it belonged to a fic- genre gives a lot of comfort to something home,” says Varun. present myself new on-screen second tional town in the film based near people who don’t watch horror (The film releases on March every single time.” outing the MP-UP border. So, I used to films,” says Varun. 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Patti Dhani and Amarpura Dhani to pursue their dream of being educat- ed.” Mahendra Jain, Principal of Secondary School in Khidgi admitted that the general approach towards this community was negative and teachers weren’t too concerned about the education of girls. However, Sohina’s confidence and courage transformed their approach. Besides promoting girls’ education, Sohina along with other members of Kishori Manch — an adolescent group run by a non-profit organisation in the region, is also creating awareness among other members of her community regarding several social welfare schemes run by the government. Under her leadership, 150 old age pension forms were filled and submitted to the concerned authorities while 10 widows were connected with the @ widow pension scheme. To boost the confidence among girls and to make them self-reliant, several girls have B ' been given employment training and !6G# !;(2<(! 2<6 6 been associated with NREGA. In addition, 15 girls are receiving com- puter training and stitch cutting ost of the people across ast month, Prime Minister training under the Pradhan Mantri Mthe world today feel that Narendra Modi while speaking Kaushal Vikas Yojana which could not education in moral and Lat the centenary celebrations of have been possible without Sohina’s human values is very Aligarh Muslim University said that efforts. She also inspired 10 girls from essential if we wish to have a there has been an unprecedented * her community to pursue nursing better society. Similarly, it is increase in the rate of Muslim girl edu- training programmes just like her. also being amply emphasised cation in the country. It is due to the “For creating awareness and help- that every profession must government policies, he said, that the ing people of the village to benefit have a code of conduct which dropout rate of Muslim girls reduced !#"$%8' "'&$! &#" $"$ from several government schemes, people in that profession from 70 per cent to 30 per cent in the Sohina has been also honoured by the must follow. However, there last decades. " '$!&$"" " '%& $! Gram Panchayat,” informed Kamlesh, are some differences among The suggests that the government a junior assistant to the Panchayat the people in regard to is investing steps in the right direction. #&&$" 1 . ,. committee. impartation of education in However, there are a few regions Sohina’s journey, however, has values. Like, some people feel where the impact of such schemes has been full of challenges. “We were also that values should not be started showing only recently, that too quite orthodox in our approach taught as a separate subject as with the combined efforts of the towards our daughter. We would not school going children already Above all these, there is non-government organisations to have allowed her to step out of the have a heavy load of books another category of people fight unawareness and orthodox val- house if social worker Giriraj Sharma that they carry and education who would ask for both the ues that act as a major hindrance. would not have counselled us. It in values, as a separate methods. They suggest that, One such region is Niwai Block in helped us understand the impor- subject, would add to this if possible, there should be the Tonk district of the Western state tance of supporting our daughter’s load and make the burden value-orientation of every of Rajasthan. In the block’s Khidgi vil- education. We also supported her unbearable. So, they suggest subject and there should be a lage resides a nomadic community decision to train with the Kishori that almost every subject, separate subject also by that called the Muslim Banjaras who are Manch,” shared Sohina’s parents. which the students presently name. One thing that is known for their ignorance towards Besides, the poor economic condition study, must have a value- common to all the kinds of girls’ education. Their insistence to fol- of the family also created troubles but orientation, which means opinion leaders is that they low patriarchal beliefs restricting girls Sohina acted with courage and con- that every subject must talk feel that the process of and women within the household is tinued to raise awareness among of some values that are degeneration in values has the main reason that has deprived sev- other girls. Today, not only her par- derived from it or that are become very rapid. However, eral adolescent girls of their right to ents but the entire community is basic or related to it besides it seems that even though acquire basic education for long. proud of her. talking about its main they all feel seriously There are around 250 house- Sohina believes that girls have subject-matter. This, they concerned with the need to holds in this rural settlement called never been a weaker gender and that opine, should be done in a stem the rot and to restore ‘Dhani’ which, in local language, they should get equal opportunities. subtle and indirect way the morals to their former refers to the area settled by some fam- Here, not surprisingly, the female lit- because this way has been heights, they do not think ilies outside the main village. Pinki eracy rate is just 10 per cent of the found to be more effective. that it is necessary to set a Khangar, a social activist, informed entire village population. To counter this, there is time-schedule for that that a major part of this community These are the regions which need another group who says that purpose. This nullifies much earns its livelihood by selling blankets special attention. Clearly, the existing ‘who said that education in of their effort on value- in other cities while few families are modus operandi isn’t sufficient to values must be given in the education because it is engaged in cattle trade. “Due to work, address the needs of such low-income form of a book only?’ They human nature that if goal most men of this community migrate communities residing in rural and feel that much part of it could and time-limits are not set, for more than half of the year. Owing remote areas. If the government be given orally. If education then the man becomes to reasons like poverty and low social intends to further reduce the drop-out in values is taught as a sluggish. Moreover, if we status, not much importance is given all the odds. One such girl is Sohina Khan said, “Sohina was compassion- While appreciating the unflinch- rate of Muslim girls from school, it will separate subject through allow our efforts for a global to the education of girl children. They who is not only pursuing education ate even as a child and was always ing courage of Sohina, Mohan Lal, need to work with these communities stories, poems, dramas, moral transformation to go are often married at a young age,” she but is equally determinant to raise eager to help others. She had her own who teaches at the Primary School in closely. Only then can every girl sayings, songs, and more, on as a process at any place said. awareness against illiteracy and child ways to fight for the rights of the girls Dhani said, “This girl has worked hard become inspiring, courageous and then this subject would be without giving it a sense of However, things have started marriage in her community,” shared and at that time, I would think wrong not only to connect herself with self-reliant. the most popular of all, urgency, then before we turn looking positive now. “There are girls Pinki. of her. However, her willingness to mainstream education but has (Rama Sharma is a recipient of particularly if it is given in the tables, the tables will turn from this Banjara community who While appreciating Sohina’s support this community has changed inspired around 50 girls of nearby Sanjoy Ghose Media Awards 2020.) the form of visuals and is on us. have started to come forward fighting efforts, the head of the village, Islam my opinion.” areas of Shyampura Dhani, Ghatta L 1 ! enacted on the stage. Besides The speed at which these groups, there is another people are destroying the group as well which talks of environment and disrupting value-based education, but it the ecological system, the seems to be not very clear rate at which the population ,/ , /=, about what exactly it wants. is growing, the amounts of They ask, ‘what does the money which are being spent phrase ‘value-based’ mean? to prepare and store weapons ( buoyant among students for reminded and restored their Does it mean that values of mass-destruction, these the new normal. About 78 per confidence in the resilience of should form the very basis of and other signs clearly warn cent of students surveyed are the human spirit. ‘When the education or that every humankind that if it does not feeling hopeful about the going gets tough, the tough get subject, which we teach, take any speedy action to O future than they did when the going’, is a lasting lesson that must bring out certain values restore the values, known as pandemic began. Of these will remain with young adults. also. If it has the former the spirit of world- s the country continues to not being able to keep up nearly 40 per cent say that with With a lot of free time on meaning, then it implies that brotherhood, love, co- Abattle Coronavirus, young academically to be most the vaccination drive their hands, young adults kept education without values has operation, non-violence, and adults in college say that their challenging. About 15 per cent underway, they are hopeful themselves entertained on no basis. Since this second more, then our very survival mental well-being has been say that not having a dedicated that normal life will resume OTT platforms. Around 33.4 meaning seems to be absurd, would be endangered. most impacted by the place for studying at home was soon. per cent of the students turned one can infer that this term Hence, the damage caused by pandemic’s social a challenge and a meagre 10.47 India’s young adults to watching content on OTT ‘value-based’ is used to put rapid degeneration in values consequences. But the silver per cent cite poor internet display positive energy and platforms such as Netflix, great emphasis on this aspect must be controlled in time. lining is visible to most and connectivity to be a pressing resilience to respond fast and Amazon Prime, Hot Star, of education. This term is Else, our present artificial the outlook is one of hope for concern. surprisingly well to followed by playing video meant to convey that if civilisation will, like many of this year, state the results of a Stress is exaggerated by unprecedented challenges. games (13.2 per cent) and education does not impart its predecessors, be washed survey by BML Munjal their concerns of post college Students have taken away cultivating new hobbies (12.5 values, then it is not away. Time, in this regard, is University. careers. 55 per cent of college courses that would be more difficult to deal with and a important learnings from this per cent) within the confines education; it is, perhaps, a crucial factor. The process One out of every two, that students are concerned, of relevant in the new normal. majority of students, 37 per black swan event. Thirty- of their premises. mere information. In that of moral regeneration cannot is, 49 per cent students say that which 38 per cent say they are Fifty-one per cent of students cent say that they have missed seven per cent of young adults While students have sense, it does not talk of the be allowed to be delayed stress, anxiety and loneliness very concerned about their cite this as an expectation their friends acutely, followed say they realise the importance missed their college campuses methodology; it does not say anymore for that would be have been the most future because of the while 32 per cent of students by the buzz of social events (25 of mental and physical health, and are eager to return, one whether there should be only too late. We must, therefore, challenging to cope with uncertainty of the situation. In expect their college to facilitate per cent) and hands on 28 per cent the importance of out of every two students say value-orientation of every set a period of time within during COVID-19 that has this scenario, their industry placements, says the training on campus. family and friends and that the future of learning will subject or teaching values which we should be able to impacted their mental health. expectations from their survey. There’s hope at the end of nurturing relationships and 12 be hybrid, says the survey. should form a separate reverse the tide or save Approximately 26 per cent cite college are to offer functional Social isolation has been the tunnel and the sentiment is per cent say that it has L subject. whatever we can.

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. "'# LYON SLAMS CRITICS OF MOTERA WICKET #''A "8 " 3< (8:wickets in a pink-ball match that and the Ahmedabad dust bowl Ravichandran Ashwin have also made solid spanned just 842 balls, making it provided for the ‘pink ball’ game gains after playing a crucial rile in India’s win the shortest completed Test since are hardest surfaces that Ben on a spin-friendly track. 1934. Foakes has kept on in his nascent Left-arm spinner Patel’s 11-wicket match The result has reignited international career. haul has debate about home-ground India have put England on helped him advantage. the mat with a couple of tracks gain 30 slots Former England captains which aided the home spinners as to reach 38th Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar position while and Michael Vaughan criticised Patel ran riot, giving India 2-1 lead off-spinner the pitch prepared by the Board in the four-match series. Ashwin’s seven of Control for Cricket in India “Last two games are the hard- wickets have lifted (BCCI)’s chief groundsman est pitches I have kept on. In the him four places to Ashish Bhowmik, while the last game the pink ball was skid- third position. tourists are considering whether ding, I haven’t seen a wicket like England spinner to lodge a formal complaint to that and keeping on it was a good Jack Leach has entered the International Cricket challenge,” Foakes, who has the top 30 for the first Council. replaced Jos Buttler as per to keep and in Sri Lanka, it was time, moving up three Lyon pointed to the fact that England’s rotation policy, said easy because it was consistent and places to 28th after taking Jack Leach was the visitors’ sole during a virtual media conference. you knew the ball is going to turn. four wickets. Captain Joe frontline spinner when asked By his own admission, Foakes What I found during pink ball Root’s maiden five-wicket about the reaction to the pitch. hasn’t seen a cricket ball turn so Test was it could spin square past haul has lifted him 16 “The best thing about this much. batter or it could skid.” places to 72nd among Test match that just passed is that “The two pitches that I have He admitted that no keeper bowlers while he is now England went in with four seam- played, I have never seen ball turn can take every catch on these sort joint-13th among all- ers,” Lyon said. arm tweaker Axar Patel. bowled out for 47, 60. Nobody The result was a major blow like that. It's certainly very chal- of tracks. rounders. “That will do me. I don’t “I was up all night watching ever says a thing (about the to Australia’s hopes of sneaking lenging. It’s like having day five “On these sort of pitches, you Opener Zak Crawley’s need to say any more.” it,” he said. pitch). into the Test championship final. pitch from ball one.” cant catch every ball.” knock of 53 in the first Lyon, who worked as a cura- “It was absolutely brilliant. “But as soon as it starts Tim Paine’s team will contest But for one of world’s best “The way I have approached innings has helped him tor before starting his 100-Test I'm thinking about bringing that spinning, everyone in the world the mid-year final at Lord’s if glovesman, the last two games is three matches for England and advance 15 places to 46th career, was captivated by the car- curator out to the SCG. seems to start crying about it. England win their fourth Test were learning experience and try and play as well as I can. Not in what was the only nage created by fellow offspinner “We play on seaming wick- “I don’t get it. I’m all for it, against India, which starts at the real fun. look too far ahead and enjoy the notable gain for any of Ravichandran Ashwin and left- ets around the world and get it was entertaining.” same venue on Thursday. “When the ball spins, it’s fun moment I guess,” he said. their batsmen. 11 1 $1 Sune Luus to lead SA Eves : P ,

8#:not out versus Kerala each from five matches but players in the 18-mem- in their last outing, smacked Andhra emerged on top, ber squad which had nine sixes and as many thanks to their higher net run- won the ODI and T20 series against Pakistan last month. boundaries in his 145 not out rate and secured a place in the Van Niekerk and Chloe Tryon were not part of that from 125 balls. knockout phase. series. 8938:; didn’t trust their defence, which The 20-year-old left-han- Sent in to bat, Jharkhand Pacer Masabata Klaas is the only one to miss out eventually resulted in panicked der had the company of his struggled with only four bats- after picking up an injury at the last moment. ndia figured out England’s gener- attempts to attack the Indian spin- skipper Ravikumar Samarth men managing double figures. Sune Luus had captained the side in the last series Ial “ineptitude against spin” during ners,” he wrote. who also slammed an unbeat- Skipper Ishan Kishan made 38 and will continue to do so with Van Niekerk and Tryon the second Test in Chennai and used “Their choice to reverse-sweep en century (130 not out from (68 balls, 3 fours), the highest yet to recover from lower-back injuries. it to their advantage in the ‘Pink Ball’ rather than to leave their crease to 118 balls; 17x4) as the open- score while medium-pacer M “It is really exciting to finally have this tour con- game by unleashing a spin-heavy change the bowler’s length is a clas- ing duo raced to the 285-run Harishankar Reddy was firmed and announce our squad that will do duty here attack on a helpful track, says former sic example. target win with 57 balls to impressive with a four-wicket in India, and we are looking forward to getting out there Australia captain Ian Chappell. “How can a risky premeditated spare at the M Chinnaswamy haul for Andhra. to see our ladies prove themselves under different play- “India’s decision to select three shot be less dangerous than what was Stadium here. ( < < Raval took charge and Ashwin Hebbar (44, 18 ing conditions,” Hilton Moreeng was quoted as saying spinners for the Test was prompted previously a trusted technique to The big win ensured that Hosts Gujarat defeated anchored the innings with balls, 4X4s, 4X6s) and Ricky in a statement by Cricbuzz. by England’s batting on a tricky unsettle good spinners?,” he ques- they finished on top of group Baroda by 40 runs in their last responsibility en route to his Bhui (57 not out, 27 balls, 5X4s, “India is always a wonderful place to tour and we Chennai pitch, where their batsmen tioned. C to qualify for the last-eight Group A match to remain century knock which was 4X6s) went on the attack from are looking forward to the challenge that lies ahead.” - Joe Root excepted - displayed a dis- Chappell said “Shrewd use of while Uttar Pradesh finished unbeaten. Opting to bat, laced with nine boundaries the start with the Jharkhand The series comprises five ODIs, followed by three tinct ineptitude against spin,” footwork not only helps negate the second following their six- Gujarat posted 277 for 7, rid- and a six. bowlers having no respite. T20 internationals — all to be held at the Ekana Stadium Chappell wrote in a column in spin but also puts a batsman in a wicket win over Odisha at the ing on opener Dhruv Raval’s Gujarat pegged back The duo added 82 in 5.5 in Lucknow. ‘ESPNcricinfo’. position to direct the ball where he Just Cricket Academy here. 102 off 129 balls and then Baroda by taking three wick- overs before Hebbar fell to “India correctly calculated that wants.” The Railways bowlers did restricted the opposition to ets in quick succession as they Shahbaz Nadeem (1/26). Bhui would result in mental scarring “To be fair, this is a skill to be very little to trouble the 237 for 9. slipped to 135 for 4. continued with his aggressive Sune Luus (c), Ayabonga Khaka, Shabnim Ismail, and used it to their advantage.” learned at a young age. Which Karnataka opening duo who Experienced leg-spinner Pacer Chintan Gaja struck ways and despite losing captain Laura Wolvaardt, Trisha Chetty, Sinalo Jafta, Tasmin Chappell said it was poor prompts the question: why is it not raced past 200 in 29.5 overs as Piyush Chawla (3/52) shone twice, first removing Solanki, Hanuma Vihari (4), he saw the Britz, Marizanne Kapp, Nondumiso Shangase, Lizelle defence which led to England’s col- widely taught in England, where the seemingly challenging bright with the ball for who was caught by Raval, and team home in the company of Lee, Anneke Bosch, Faye Tunniclife, Nonkululeko lapse in the third Test. sweeping is misguidedly touted as total proved just to be a cake- Gujarat. then sent back inform rival Naren Reddy (16 not out, 7 Mlaba, Mignon du Preez, Nadine de Klerk, Lara Goodall “When faced with a serious spin the secret to playing spin bowling walk. Left-handed batsman skipper Krunal Pandya (2). balls, 1X4, 2X6s). and Tumi Sekhukhune. challenge, the England batsmen successfully? ?# # &% @ , :8 8"&8! flank as Arsenal failed to close his leg. Alexandre Lacazette him down, and then shot low stepped up to power the penal- rsenal turn around its past Bernd Leno. ty in. Arecent poor form to beat David Luiz leveled for Pepe made it 3-1 in the Leicester 3-1 on Sunday as the Arsenal with his first league goal 52nd when he started a move home side was left to deal with since October 2019, heading in down the right flank and then an injury to on-form midfield- Willian’s free kick when he was ran through the Leicester er Harvey Barnes. left unmarked. defense to apply a simple finish Arsenal started the day in Pepe had earlier been off Willian’s low cross. 11th and returned to the top half denied a penalty when a video Barnes was carried off early with the win, while Leicester review showed he was tripped in the second half with an missed a chance to challenge just outside the area by Wilfred apparent knee injury, and ( Manchester United for second. Ndidi, but was key to winning defender Jonny Evans was also Youri Tielemans gave a spot-kick just before half time hurt later in the game. Leicester Leicester the lead in the sixth when he struck a shot that hit was already without attacking <2!8 +?7 minute when the Belgian mid- Ndidi's arm as the Nigerian midfielder James Maddison, fielder surged down the right midfielder tried to block with who has a hip injury. tar Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Sunday 8938:; Spinned 2017 world champion V Kaladzinskay to grab a Gold medal at the Outstanding ix-time world champion MC Mary Kom will (: Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial Sspearhead a 14-member Indian boxing in tournament here, and returned to the mat in the Boxam International tournament in omelu Lukaku $"'$"'#?%'#!"" style after a long coronavirus-forced break. Castellon, Spain from March 1 to 7. Rscored after just 32 Up against the world number seven According to a release issued by the seconds and helped to Belarusian, it was not an easy bout for the world Boxing Federation of India (BFI), the Indian set up two goals as Napoli was also playing into the bottom left cor- ately scored as he turned number three Indian as the two grapplers kept contingent left for Spain in early hours on league leader Inter Milan later, against Benevento. ner. in the rebound after testing each other with consistent attacks in the Sunday. beat Genoa 3-0 in Serie It was Genoa’s first The Nerazzurri Genoa goalkeeper sea-saw battle in which Vinesh prevailed. Besides Mary Kom, the team also has A on Sunday. league defeat since early wasted a number of Mattia Perin parried Vinesh opened up a 4-0 lead in the 53kg Commonwealth Games Silver medallist Manish Inter dominated but January and left it 13th, chances and Barella also Lukaku's effort. The goal final with a throw which she initiated with a left- Kaushik (63kg). took until the 69th eight points above the hit a long-range stunner was originally ruled out leg attack but Kaladzinskay made it 4-4 with her The duo are key highlights of the Indian minute to double its drop zone. off the crossbar in the for offside but was brilliant move. team as they are set to make a return to the ring lead, through Matteo Inter was bidding 17th. awarded on video Vinesh took the break leading 6-4, adding for the first time since the Asian Olympic Darmian. Substitute for a fifth straight league Inter finally doubled review. to her score with a take down, 10 seconds before Qualifiers held in Jordan in March last year. Alexis Sanchez sealed win and it got off to the its lead when Lukaku Injury-hit Juventus the break. The highly-competitive tournament will the win to ensure perfect start when drew defenders toward was held at Hellas The Belarusian put pressure on the Indian feature 19 nations with their Tokyo-bound box- Antonio Conte’s side Nicolò Barella sent a him before setting up an Verona to 1-1 as its with another four-point throw but with 25 sec- ers. moved seven points ball through to Lukaku, unmarked Darmian. hopes of a record- onds to go, Vinesh’s move fetched her four more The Indian team will consist of eight men above second-place AC who played a quick one- Sánchez was brought extending 10th succes- points for a 10-8 lead. She got into a position and six women pugilists, including nine Milan, which visits two with Lautaro on in the 76th and the sive Serie A title took a from where she pinned Kaladzinskay to ensure Olympic qualified boxers. Roma in the late game. Martínez before drilling Inter forward immedi- blow. herself a Gold.